# Documentation

> Documentation for oddk — install, first instance, snapshots and recovery, notifications, and tuning.

Source: https://oddk.dev/docs/
Project: https://github.com/AndrianBdn/oddk


**oddk** gives a single Linux host the ergonomics of a managed Postgres service:
instances with resource limits, whole-deployment snapshots, offsite copies in S3,
health alerts, and disaster recovery that works when the daemon itself is down.

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  {{< card link="install" title="Install" subtitle="One command. Installing and updating are the same command." >}}
  {{< card link="quickstart" title="Quickstart" subtitle="Create a database, connect over SSH, and protect it." >}}
  {{< card link="snapshots" title="Snapshots & recovery" subtitle="The reason oddk exists. Read this one." >}}
  {{< card link="notifications" title="Notifications" subtitle="Configure this before you need it. Silence is not the same as healthy." >}}
  {{< card link="tuning" title="Tuning" subtitle="Resource-based defaults and named parameter groups." >}}
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## Requirements

- **Linux** (x86_64 or arm64)
- **Docker**, running
- **systemd**, for the installed service

oddk runs *on the host*, not inside a container — it is the control plane that
manages Docker, not a workload that Docker manages.