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    Installation type

    How Home Assistant is installed: Home Assistant OS, or Home Assistant Container. They differ in what is managed for you.

    Also
    installation types, installation method, Home Assistant Container

    Home Assistant OS comes with the Supervisor, apps, and backups. Home Assistant Container runs Core in a container that the user manages themselves.

    Home Assistant Core and Home Assistant Supervised installations, where users installed the pieces themselves, are no longer supported since Home Assistant 2025.12.

    Related terms

    • Home Assistant OSThe operating system made to run Home Assistant, with the Supervisor, apps, and backups. The recommended way to install Home Assistant.
    • SupervisorThe part of Home Assistant OS that runs Home Assistant Core and apps, each in its own container, and handles their updates and backups.
    • Home Assistant CoreThe Python application at the heart of Home Assistant, with all its integrations, in the home-assistant/core repository.