Build your local AI assistants, sync data across places, self-host your workspace, stream your own media, and more—all in your sovereign cloud made possible by Olares.

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• Introduction
• Motivation and design
• Tech stacks
• Features
• Feature comparison
• Getting started
• Project navigation
• Contributing to Olares
• Community & contact
• Staying ahead
• Special thanks

Olares is the sovereign cloud that puts you in control. It's an open-source, self-hosted alternative to public clouds like AWS, built to reclaim your data ownership and privacy. By combining the power of Kubernetes with a streamlined interface, Olares enables you to take full control of your data and computing resources. Whether you're managing a homelab, hosting applications, or safeguarding your privacy, Olares delivers the flexibility and capabilities of public clouds, without compromising privacy or security.

Typical use cases of Olares include:

🤖 Local AI: Host and run world-class open-source AI models locally, including large language models, image generation, and speech recognition. Create custom AI assistants that integrate seamlessly with your personal data and applications, all while ensuring enhanced privacy and control.

💻Personal data repository: Securely store, sync, and manage your photos, documents, and important files in a unified storage and access anywhere.

🛠️ Self-hosted workspace: Create a free, powerful workspace for your team or family with open source selfhosted alternatives.

🎥 Private media server: Host your own streaming services with your personal media collections.

🏡 Smart Home Hub: Create a central control point for your IoT devices and home automation.

🤝 User-owned decentralized social media: Easily install decentralized social media apps such as Mastodon, Ghost, and WordPress on Olares, allowing you to build a personal brand without the risk of being banned or paying platform commissions.

📚 Learning platform: Explore self-hosting, container orchestration, and cloud technologies hands-on.

We believe the current state of the internet, where user data is centralized and exploited by monopolistic corporations, is deeply flawed. Our goal is to empower individuals with true data ownership and control.

Olares provides a next-generation decentralized Internet framework consisting of the following three integral components:

• Snowinning Protocol: A decentralized identity and reputation system that integrates decentralized identifiers (DIDs), verifiable credentials (VCs), and reputation data.
• Olares OS: An one-stop self-hosted operating system running on edge devices, allowing users to host their own data and applications.
• LarePass: A comprehensive client software that securely bridges users to their Olares systems. It offers remote access, identity and device management, data storage, and productivity tools, providing a seamless interface for all Olares interactions.

Public clouds have IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS layers. Olares provides open-source alternatives to these layers.

Olares offers a wide array of features designed to enhance security, ease of use, and development flexibility:

• Enterprise-grade security: Simplified network configuration using Tailscale, Headscale, Cloudflare Tunnel, and FRP.
• Secure and permissionless application ecosystem: Sandboxing ensures application isolation and security.
• Unified file system and database: Automated scaling, backups, and high availability.
• Single sign-on: Log in once to access all applications within Olares with a shared authentication service.
• AI capabilities: Comprehensive solution for GPU management, local AI model hosting, and private knowledge bases while maintaining data privacy.
• Built-in applications: Includes file manager, sync drive, vault, reader, app market, settings, and dashboard.
• Seamless anywhere access: Access your devices from anywhere using dedicated clients for mobile, desktop, and browsers.
• Development tools: Comprehensive development tools for effortless application development and porting.

To help you understand how Olares stands out in the landscape, we've created a comparison table that highlights its features alongside those of other leading solutions in the market.

Legend:

• 🚀: Auto, indicates that the system completes the task automatically.
• ✅: Yes, indicates that users without a developer background can complete the setup through the product's UI prompts.
• 🛠️: Manual Configuration, indicates that even users with an engineering background need to refer to tutorials to complete the setup.
• ❌: No, indicates that the feature is not supported.

Refer to Getting Started Guide to spin up your Olares on Linux, Windows, Mac, or Raspberry Pi.

Olares consists of numerous code repositories publicly available on GitHub. The current repository is responsible for the final compilation, packaging, installation, and upgrade of the operating system, while specific changes mostly take place in their corresponding repositories.

The following table lists the project directories under Olares and their corresponding repositories. Find the one that interests you:

We are welcoming contributions in any form:

• If you want to develop your own applications on Olares, refer to:
  https://docs.olares.xyz/developer/develop/

• If you want to help improve Olares, refer to:
  https://docs.olares.xyz/developer/contribute/olares.html

• Github Discussion. Best for sharing feedback and asking questions.
• GitHub Issues. Best for filing bugs you encounter using Olares and submitting feature proposals.
• Discord. Best for sharing anything Olares.

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The Olares project has incorporated numerous third-party open source projects, including: Kubernetes, Kubesphere, Padloc, K3S, JuiceFS, MinIO, Envoy, Authelia, Infisical, Dify, Seafile,HeadScale, tailscale, Redis Operator, Nitro, RssHub, predixy, nvshare, LangChain, Quasar, TrustWallet, Restic, ZincSearch, filebrowser, lego, Velero, s3rver, Citusdata.