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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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Convert your hardware into an AI home server with Olares, an open-source sovereign cloud OS built for local AI.

• Run leading AI models on your terms: Effortlessly host powerful open AI models like LLaMA, Stable Diffusion, Whisper, and Flux.1 directly on your hardware, giving you full control over your AI environment.
• Deploy with ease: Discover and install a wide range of open-source AI apps from Olares Market in a few clicks. No more complicated configuration or setup.
• Access anytime, anywhere: Access your AI apps and models through a browser whenever and wherever you need them.
• Integrated AI for smarter AI experience: Using a Model Context Protocol (MCP)-like mechanism, Olares seamlessly connects AI models with AI apps and your private data sets. This creates highly personalized, context-aware AI interactions that adapt to your needs.

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Why Olares?

Here is why and where you can count on Olares for private, powerful, and secure sovereign cloud experience:

🤖 Edge AI: Run cutting-edge open AI models locally, including large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition. Create private AI services tailored to your data for enhanced functionality and privacy.

📊 Personal data repository: Securely store, sync, and manage your important files, photos, and documents across devices and locations.

🚀 Self-hosted workspace: Build a free collaborative workspace for your team using secure, open-source SaaS 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.

Getting started

System compatibility

Olares has been tested and verified on the following Linux platforms:

• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or later
• Debian 11 or later

Other installation options Olares can also be installed on other platforms like macOS, Windows, PVE, and Raspberry Pi, or installed via docker compose on Linux. However, these are only for testing and development purposes. For detailed instructions, visit Additional installation options.

Set up Olares

To get started with Olares on your own device, follow the Getting Started Guide for step-by-step instructions.

Architecture

Olares' architecture is based on two core principles:

• Adopts an Android-like approach to control software permissions and interactivity, ensuring smooth and secure system operations.

• Leverages cloud-native technologies to manage hardware and middleware services efficiently.

  

For detailed description of each component, refer to Olares architecture.

Features

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.

Project navigation

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:

Contributing to Olares

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

Community & contact

• 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.

Special thanks

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.