Linux + Kubernetes: a small operating system that boots a machine directly into Kubernetes and uses Kubernetes as the service manager.

The image is immutable, and it has no shell, no package manager, and no libc. A Cluster resource declares the fleet: the releases, the machines, and the workloads. Each machine downloads a release, checks every byte against pinned digests, and writes it into the spare slot of an A/B pair, so a bad release rolls back with a reboot.

Start here:

• liken is the whole project in one repository: the code, the build, the plans, and the design documents. It is written to be read.
• The manual tells an operator how to install liken and run a cluster.
• The release channel publishes every release, its notices, and its sources.