Cluster management

This section covers everything you do with olares-cli on the Olares host itself: install Olares on a fresh machine, understand its file layout and environment variables, follow versioning rules, and look up any host-mode command.

• Installation architecture: how Olares is installed from the perspective of overall architecture and core components.
• Installation process: the install pipeline in detail, broken down into four key phases.
• Olares Home: the structure of the base installation directory.
• Environment variables: the variables you can set to customize the install.
• Olares versioning: versioning rules, release types, branch management practices, and upgrade guidelines.
• Command reference: alphabetical reference for every host-mode command, with syntax, options, and examples.

For the user-mode and in-cluster surface of olares-cli, including how to drive Olares from an AI agent on your laptop or inside an Olares app, see Use with AI agents.