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Olares: An Open-Source Sovereign Cloud OS for Local AI

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Olares is an open-source sovereign cloud OS designed for local AI, enabling users to build their own AI assistants, sync data across devices, self-host their workspace, stream media, and more within a sovereign cloud environment. Users can effortlessly run leading AI models, deploy open-source AI apps, access AI apps and models anywhere, and benefit from integrated AI for personalized interactions. Olares offers features like edge AI, personal data repository, self-hosted workspace, private media server, smart home hub, and user-owned decentralized social media. The platform provides enterprise-grade security, secure application ecosystem, unified file system and database, single sign-on, AI capabilities, built-in applications, seamless access, and development tools. Olares is compatible with Linux, Raspberry Pi, Mac, and Windows, and offers a wide range of system-level applications, third-party components and services, and additional libraries and components.

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Olares: An Open-Source Sovereign Cloud OS for Local AI

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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 is available for Linux, Raspberry Pi, Mac, and Windows. It has been tested and verified on the following systems:

Platform Operating system Notes
Linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or later
Debian 11 or later
Raspberry Pi RaspbianOS Verified on Raspberry Pi 4 Model B and Raspberry Pi 5
Windows Windows 11 23H2 or later
Windows 10 22H2 or later
WSL2
Mac Monterey (12) or later
Proxmox VE (PVE) Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.0

Note

If you successfully install Olares on an operating system that is not listed in the compatibility table, please let us know! You can open an issue or submit a pull request on our GitHub repository.

Set up Olares

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

Tech stacks

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

Tech Stacks

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.

Comparison with other self-hosting solutions

As an open-source sovereign cloud OS for local AI, Olares reimagines what’s possible in self-hosting. 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 self-hosting 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.
Olares Synology TrueNAS CasaOS Unraid
Source Code License Olares License Closed GPL 3.0 Apache 2.0 Closed
Built On Kubernetes Linux Kubernetes Docker Docker
Local LLM Hosting 🚀 🛠️ 🛠️ 🛠️ 🛠️
Local LLM app development 🚀 🛠️ 🛠️ 🛠️ 🛠️
Multi-Node
Build-in Apps ✅ (Rich desktop apps) ✅ (Rich desktop apps) ❌ (CLI) ✅ (Simple desktop apps) ✅ (Dashboard)
Free Domain Name
Auto SSL Certificate 🚀 🛠️ 🛠️ 🛠️
Reverse Proxy 🚀 🛠️ 🛠️ 🛠️
VPN Management 🚀 🛠️ 🛠️ 🛠️ 🛠️
Graded App Entrance 🚀 🛠️ 🛠️ 🛠️ 🛠️
Multi-User Management ✅ User management
🚀 Resource isolation
✅ User management
🛠️ Resource isolation
✅ User management
🛠️ Resource isolation
✅ User management
🛠️ Resource isolation
Single Login for All Apps 🚀
Cross-Node Storage 🚀 (Juicefs+
MinIO)
Database Solution 🚀 (Built-in cloud-native solution) 🛠️ 🛠️ 🛠️ 🛠️
Disaster Recovery 🚀 (MinIO's Erasure Coding) ✅ RAID ✅ RAID ✅ RAID ✅ Unraid Storage
Backup ✅ App Data
✅ User Data
✅ User Data ✅ User Data ✅ User Data ✅ User Data
App Sandboxing ❌ (K8S's namespace)
App Ecosystem ✅ (Official + third-party) ✅ (Majorly official apps) ✅ (Official + third-party submissions) ✅ Majorly official apps ✅ (Community app market)
Developer Friendly ✅ IDE
✅ CLI
✅ SDK
✅ Doc
✅ CLI
✅ SDK
✅ Doc
✅ CLI
✅ Doc
✅ CLI
✅ Doc
✅ Doc
Client Platforms ✅ Android
✅ iOS
✅ Windows
✅ Mac
✅ Chrome Plugin
✅ Android
✅ iOS
Client Functionality ✅ (All-in-one client app) ✅ (14 separate client apps)

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:

Framework components
Directory Repository Description
frameworks/app-service https://github.com/beclab/app-service A system framework component that provides lifecycle management and various security controls for all apps in the system.
frameworks/backup-server https://github.com/beclab/backup-server A system framework component that provides scheduled full or incremental cluster backup services.
frameworks/bfl https://github.com/beclab/bfl Backend For Launcher (BFL), a system framework component serving as the user access point and aggregating and proxying interfaces of various backend services.
frameworks/GPU https://github.com/grgalex/nvshare GPU sharing mechanism that allows multiple processes (or containers running on Kubernetes) to securely run on the same physical GPU concurrently, each having the whole GPU memory available.
frameworks/l4-bfl-proxy https://github.com/beclab/l4-bfl-proxy Layer 4 network proxy for BFL. By prereading SNI, it provides a dynamic route to pass through into the user's Ingress.
frameworks/osnode-init https://github.com/beclab/osnode-init A system framework component that initializes node data when a new node joins the cluster.
frameworks/system-server https://github.com/beclab/system-server As a part of system runtime frameworks, it provides a mechanism for security calls between apps.
frameworks/tapr https://github.com/beclab/tapr Olares Application Runtime components.
System-Level Applications and Services
Directory Repository Description
apps/analytic https://github.com/beclab/analytic Developed based on Umami, Analytic is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.
apps/market https://github.com/beclab/market This repository deploys the front-end part of the application market in Olares.
apps/market-server https://github.com/beclab/market This repository deploys the back-end part of the application market in Olares.
apps/argo https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows A workflow engine for orchestrating container execution of local recommendation algorithms.
apps/desktop https://github.com/beclab/desktop The built-in desktop application of the system.
apps/devbox https://github.com/beclab/devbox An IDE for developers to port and develop Olares applications.
apps/vault https://github.com/beclab/termipass A free alternative to 1Password and Bitwarden for teams and enterprises of any size Developed based on Padloc. It serves as the client that helps you manage DID, Olares ID, and Olares devices.
apps/files https://github.com/beclab/files A built-in file manager modified from Filebrowser, providing management of files on Drive, Sync, and various Olares physical nodes.
apps/notifications https://github.com/beclab/notifications The notifications system of Olares
apps/profile https://github.com/beclab/profile Linktree alternative in Olares
apps/rsshub https://github.com/beclab/rsshub A RSS subscription manager based on RssHub.
apps/settings https://github.com/beclab/settings Built-in system settings.
apps/system-apps https://github.com/beclab/system-apps Built based on the kubesphere/console project, system-service provides a self-hosted cloud platform that helps users understand and control the system's runtime status and resource usage through a visual Dashboard and feature-rich ControlHub.
apps/wizard https://github.com/beclab/wizard A wizard application to walk users through the system activation process.
Third-party Components and Services
Directory Repository Description
third-party/authelia https://github.com/beclab/authelia An open-source authentication and authorization server providing two-factor authentication and single sign-on (SSO) for your applications via a web portal.
third-party/headscale https://github.com/beclab/headscale An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server in Olares to manage Tailscale in LarePass across different devices.
third-party/infisical https://github.com/beclab/infisical An open-source secret management platform that syncs secrets across your teams/infrastructure and prevents secret leaks.
third-party/juicefs https://github.com/beclab/juicefs-ext A distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3, allowing apps on different nodes to access the same data via POSIX interface.
third-party/ks-console https://github.com/kubesphere/console Kubesphere console that allows for cluster management via a Web GUI.
third-party/ks-installer https://github.com/beclab/ks-installer-ext Kubesphere installer component that automatically creates Kubesphere clusters based on cluster resource definitions.
third-party/kube-state-metrics https://github.com/beclab/kube-state-metrics kube-state-metrics (KSM) is a simple service that listens to the Kubernetes API server and generates metrics about the state of the objects.
third-party/notification-manager https://github.com/beclab/notification-manager-ext Kubesphere's notification management component for unified management of multiple notification channels and custom aggregation of notification content.
third-party/predixy https://github.com/beclab/predixy Redis cluster proxy service that automatically identifies available nodes and adds namespace isolation.
third-party/redis-cluster-operator https://github.com/beclab/redis-cluster-operator A cloud-native tool for creating and managing Redis clusters based on Kubernetes.
third-party/seafile-server https://github.com/beclab/seafile-server The backend service of Seafile (Sync Drive) for handling data storage.
third-party/seahub https://github.com/beclab/seahub The front-end and middleware service of Seafile (Sync Drive) for handling file sharing, data synchronization, etc.
third-party/tailscale https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale Tailscale has been integrated in LarePass of all platforms.
Additional libraries and components
Directory Repository Description
build/installer The template for generating the installer build.
build/manifest Installation build image list template.
libs/fs-lib https://github.com/beclab/fs-lib The SDK library for the iNotify-compatible interface implemented based on JuiceFS.
scripts Assisting scripts for generating the installer build.

Contributing to Olares

We are welcoming contributions in any form:

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.

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