---
title: "Documentation"
description: "Install Onebox, deploy your application, and operate it on one server."
status: shipped
---

Production operations for an application intentionally running on one server. Start with [What Onebox is](/docs/get-started/overview).

## Quickstart

[Install](/docs/get-started/install) → [Your first deploy](/docs/get-started/first-deploy) → [Reading the file back](/docs/get-started/reading-it-back)

## Browse the documentation

### Get started

- [What Onebox is](/docs/get-started/overview)
- [Install](/docs/get-started/install)
- [Your first deploy](/docs/get-started/first-deploy)
- [Reading the file back](/docs/get-started/reading-it-back)

### Guides

- [Add a database](/docs/guides/databases)
- [Back up a database](/docs/guides/backups)
- [Handle secrets](/docs/guides/secrets)
- [Run migrations safely](/docs/guides/migrations)
- [Schedule a job](/docs/guides/cron-jobs)
- [Roll back a release](/docs/guides/rollback)
- [Deploy through a jump host](/docs/guides/jump-host)
- [Environment variables](/docs/guides/environment-variables)
- [Adopt an existing Compose file](/docs/guides/compose)
- [Eject](/docs/guides/eject)
- [Upgrade to onebox names](/docs/guides/upgrade-to-onebox-names)

### Reference

- [Project file](/docs/reference/project-file)
- [Top-level fields](/docs/reference/fields/top-level)
- [Workloads](/docs/reference/fields/workloads)
- [Services](/docs/reference/fields/services)
- [Environments](/docs/reference/fields/environments)
- [Runtime](/docs/reference/fields/runtime)
- [Deployment](/docs/reference/fields/deployment)
- [Checks](/docs/reference/fields/checks)
- [Proxy](/docs/reference/fields/proxy)
- [Hooks](/docs/reference/fields/hooks)
- [Registries](/docs/reference/fields/registries)
- [Notifications](/docs/reference/fields/notifications)
- [Backup targets](/docs/reference/fields/backup-targets)
- [External services](/docs/reference/fields/external-services)
- [CLI commands](/docs/reference/cli)
- [Error codes](/docs/reference/errors)
- [Service drivers](/docs/reference/drivers)
- [Policies](/docs/reference/policies)
- [Naming](/docs/reference/naming)
- [Shipped vs proposed](/docs/reference/capabilities)

### Concepts

- [The ownership boundary](/docs/concepts/ownership-boundary)
- [Evidence, not declaration](/docs/concepts/evidence-not-declaration)
- [Why Compose is generated](/docs/concepts/generated-compose)
- [What Onebox refuses](/docs/concepts/what-onebox-refuses)
- [The safety envelope](/docs/concepts/safety-envelope)

For agents: [llms.txt](/llms.txt) lists the documentation; every page has a Markdown version at `<path>.md`, including [this page](/docs.md).