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 maintain the host.

• 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.
• Common Olares CLI commands: commands you run in the host terminal for status checks, diagnostics, password recovery, and storage maintenance.
• Olares CLI overview: choose between maintaining Olares OS on its host and managing a running Olares from another computer.

To manage a running Olares through an AI agent on another computer, see Use Olares CLI with AI agents.