For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL. For a complete documentation index, see https://docs.nvidia.com/aistore/llms.txt. For full documentation content, see https://docs.nvidia.com/aistore/llms-full.txt. AIStore documentation is organized by task: getting started, accessing AIS via CLI/API/SDK, managing storage and clusters, deploying in production, and exploring advanced features. ## Core Documentation - [Main README](/aistore/) - [In-depth Overview](/aistore/overview) - [Terminology and core abstractions](/aistore/terminology) - [Getting Started](/aistore/getting_started) - [Networking model](/aistore/networking) - [Buckets: design, operations, namespaces, and system buckets](/aistore/bucket) - [Observability overview](/aistore/monitoring-overview) - [CLI overview](/aistore/cli) - [Production deployment](https://github.com/NVIDIA/aistore/blob/main/deploy/README.md) - [Technical Blog](https://aistore.nvidia.com/blog) ## APIs, SDKs, and Compatibility - [Go API](https://github.com/NVIDIA/aistore/tree/main/api) - [Python SDK](https://github.com/NVIDIA/aistore/tree/main/python/aistore) - [PyPI package](https://pypi.org/project/aistore/) - [Python SDK reference guide](/aistore/python_sdk) - [PyTorch integration](/aistore/pytorch) - [TensorFlow integration](/aistore/tensorflow) - [HTTP API reference](https://aistore.nvidia.com/docs/http-api) - [curl examples](/aistore/http_api) - [Easy URL](/aistore/easy_url) - [S3 compatibility](/aistore/s3compat) - [`s3cmd` quick start](/aistore/s3compat#quick-start-with-s3cmd) - [Presigned S3 requests](/aistore/s3compat#presigned-s3-requests) - [Boto3 support](https://github.com/NVIDIA/aistore/tree/main/python/aistore/botocore_patch) ## Command-Line Interface - [CLI overview](/aistore/cli) - [`ais help`](/aistore/cli/help) - [CLI reference guide](https://github.com/NVIDIA/aistore/blob/main/docs/cli.md#cli-reference) - [Bucket operations](/aistore/cli/bucket) - [Cluster and remote-cluster management](/aistore/cli/cluster) - [Storage and mountpath management](/aistore/cli/storage) - [Monitoring and `ais show`](/aistore/cli/show) - [Downloads](/aistore/cli/download) - [Jobs](/aistore/cli/job) - [Authentication and access control](/aistore/cli/auth) - [Configuration via CLI](/aistore/cli/config) - [ETL CLI](/aistore/cli/etl) - [Distributed shuffle CLI](/aistore/cli/dsort) - [ML / get-batch CLI](/aistore/cli/ml) - [GCP credentials](/aistore/cli/gcp_creds) - [TLS certificate management](/aistore/cli/x509) ## Storage and Data Management - [Storage services](/aistore/storage_svcs) - [Buckets: design, operations, namespaces, and system buckets](/aistore/bucket) - [Native Bucket Inventory (NBI)](/aistore/nbi) - [Backend providers](/aistore/providers) - [On-disk layout](/aistore/on_disk_layout) - [Virtual directories](/aistore/howto_virt_dirs) - [System files](/aistore/sysfiles) - [Evicting remote buckets and cached data](/aistore/cli/evicting_buckets_andor_data) ## Cluster Operations - [Node lifecycle: maintenance, shutdown, decommission](/aistore/lifecycle_node) - [Global rebalance](/aistore/rebalance) - [Resilver](/aistore/resilver) - [AIS in Containerized Environments](/aistore/containerized) - [Highly available control plane](/aistore/ha) - [Information Center (IC)](/aistore/ic) - [Out-of-band updates](/aistore/out_of_band) - [Troubleshooting](/aistore/troubleshooting) ## Configuration and Security - [Configuration](/aistore/configuration) - [Environment variables](/aistore/environment-vars) - [Feature flags](/aistore/feature_flags) - [AuthN and access control](/aistore/authn) - [Authentication validation](/aistore/auth_validation) - [HTTPS and certificates](/aistore/https) - [Switching a cluster to HTTPS](/aistore/switch_https) ## ETL and Advanced Workflows - [ETL overview](/aistore/etl) - [ETL CLI docs](/aistore/cli/etl) - [ETL Python SDK examples](https://github.com/NVIDIA/aistore/tree/main/python/examples/ais-etl) - [Custom transformers](https://github.com/NVIDIA/ais-etl/tree/main/transformers) - [ETL Python webserver SDK](https://github.com/NVIDIA/aistore/blob/main/python/aistore/sdk/etl/webserver/README.md) - [ETL Go webserver package](https://github.com/NVIDIA/aistore/blob/main/ext/etl/webserver/README.md) - [Archives: read, write, and list](/aistore/archive) - [Distributed shuffle (`dsort`)](/aistore/dsort) - [Initial sharding utility (`ishard`)](https://github.com/NVIDIA/aistore/blob/main/cmd/ishard/README.md) - [Downloader](/aistore/downloader) - [Blob Downloader](/aistore/blob_downloader) - [Batch object retrieval (get-batch)](/aistore/get_batch) - [Batch operations](/aistore/batch) - [Tools and utilities](https://github.com/NVIDIA/aistore/blob/main/cmd/README.md) - [Extended actions (xactions)](https://github.com/NVIDIA/aistore/blob/main/xact/README.md) ## Observability, Monitoring, and Performance - [Observability overview](/aistore/monitoring-overview) - [Monitoring with CLI](/aistore/monitoring-cli) - [Logs](/aistore/monitoring-logs) - [Prometheus integration](/aistore/monitoring-prometheus) - [Metrics reference](/aistore/monitoring-metrics) - [Grafana dashboards](/aistore/monitoring-grafana) - [Kubernetes monitoring](/aistore/monitoring-kubernetes) - [Distributed tracing](/aistore/distributed-tracing) - [Monitoring get-batch](/aistore/monitoring-get-batch) - [AIS load generator (`aisloader`)](/aistore/aisloader) - [Benchmarking AIStore](/aistore/howto_benchmark) - [Performance tuning and testing](/aistore/performance) - [Performance monitoring via CLI](/aistore/cli/performance) - [Rate limiting](/aistore/rate_limit) - [Checksumming](/aistore/checksum) - [Filesystem Health Checker (FSHC)](/aistore/fshc) - [Traffic patterns](/aistore/traffic_patterns) ## Networking - [Networking: multi-homing, network separation, IPv6](/aistore/networking) - [HTTPS configuration](/aistore/https) - [Switching to HTTPS](/aistore/switch_https) - [Idle connections](/aistore/idle_connections) - [MessagePack protocol](/aistore/msgp) ## Deployment - [AIStore on Kubernetes](https://github.com/NVIDIA/ais-k8s) - [Kubernetes Operator](https://github.com/NVIDIA/ais-k8s/blob/main/operator/README.md) - [Ansible playbooks](https://github.com/NVIDIA/ais-k8s/blob/main/playbooks/README.md) - [Helm charts](https://github.com/NVIDIA/ais-k8s/tree/main/helm) - [Deployment monitoring](https://github.com/NVIDIA/ais-k8s/blob/main/monitoring/README.md) - [Docker](/aistore/docker_main) ## Developer Resources - [Development guide](/aistore/development) - [`aisnode` command line](/aistore/command_line) - [Build tags](/aistore/build_tags) ## Object and Bucket Naming - [Unicode and special symbols in object and bucket names](/aistore/unicode) - [Extremely long object names](/aistore/long_names)