# Bacalhau Documentation

> Bacalhau is an open-source distributed compute platform that enables processing data where it lives. Run Docker containers and WebAssembly across edge, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments.

## Quick Start

```bash
# Install Bacalhau
curl -sL https://get.bacalhau.org/install.sh | bash

# Run your first job
bacalhau docker run ubuntu echo "Hello World"

# Check job status
bacalhau job list
```

## Documentation Sections

- [Complete documentation](/llms-full.txt): The full, generated Bacalhau documentation corpus

- [Getting Started](/llms/getting-started.txt): Installation, quickstart, first jobs
- [CLI Reference](/llms/cli.txt): All bacalhau commands and options
- [API Reference](/llms/api.txt): REST API documentation
- [Concepts](/llms/concepts.txt): Architecture and core concepts
- [Guides and FAQs](/llms/other.txt): Data sources, result publishing, configuration, operations, and troubleshooting

## Key Concepts

- **Compute Over Data**: Run compute where data lives, not the other way around
- **Docker Support**: Run existing Docker containers without modification
- **WASM Support**: Lightweight WebAssembly execution for edge devices
- **Distributed**: Scale from laptop to thousands of nodes
- **Open Source**: Apache 2.0 licensed, community-driven

## Common Questions

### What is compute over data?

Compute over data runs processing near the systems where data is generated or stored, reducing unnecessary transfers of raw data to a central compute environment.

### What is Bacalhau?

Bacalhau is an open-source distributed compute orchestration framework. Orchestrator nodes schedule jobs, and compute nodes run Docker containers or WebAssembly modules near their input data.

### When is Bacalhau useful?

Bacalhau is useful when moving raw data is slow, expensive, unreliable, or restricted, including distributed log processing, fleet operations, regional analytics, machine learning, and edge workloads.

## Resources

- GitHub: https://github.com/bacalhau-project/bacalhau
- Slack: https://bit.ly/bacalhau-project-slack
- Website: https://bacalhau.org