# The `liken` manual

This manual tells you how to set up and run a `liken` cluster. The
concepts section gives the model. The guides give the steps for the
common tasks. The reference describes the API resources, the release
channel, and the `liken` command.

If `liken` is new to you, read
[How liken works](/docs/concepts/how-liken-works/) first. It gives
the model in one read. Then read
[Install a cluster](/docs/guides/install/): the steps from a
downloaded release to `kubectl get nodes`.

This manual is small on purpose. Each script, manifest, and program in
[liken-sh/liken](https://github.com/liken-sh/liken) has comments that
explain how the system works. This manual tells you how to operate the
system. The repository tells you why the system is built this way.

Every page of this site is also available as Markdown. Add `index.md`
to a page's address to get it. [/llms.txt](/llms.txt) lists those
pages, and [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt) contains the whole manual
in one file.