Get Started

Three quickstarts, one per kind of machine. Each is short on purpose — the copy-paste path and nothing else. The Install section carries the detail behind every step.

flowchart LR
  subgraph one [One machine]
    A["Core Quickstart"] --> B["actana session start"]
  end
  subgraph stack [Whole stack]
    C["Docker Compose"] --> D["pair in the Panel"]
  end
  subgraph client [Client only]
    E["Client CLI"] --> F["pair to a remote Core"]
  end

Pick your door

• Core Quickstart — turn this machine into a Core and drive it from the same terminal. No Docker, no Panel, no pairing step.
• Docker Compose — the whole product on one host: a Panel and a Core on one Docker network, pulled from published images. The fastest way to see Fleet, a session, and a pairing code.
• Client CLI — just the actana command, as a client of Cores running elsewhere. This is the only native path on Windows.

All three converge on the same product: Cores run the work, and any client — the Panel, the CLI, the SDK — drives them after pairing.

Deploying the Panel for real (TLS, backups, configuration) is Panel Installation.