# Installation type

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

Source: https://contributors.home-assistant.io/glossary/installation-type/

- 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 OS](https://contributors.home-assistant.io/glossary/home-assistant-os/): The operating system made to run Home Assistant, with the Supervisor, apps, and backups. The recommended way to install Home Assistant.
- [Supervisor](https://contributors.home-assistant.io/glossary/supervisor/): The 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 Core](https://contributors.home-assistant.io/glossary/core/): The Python application at the heart of Home Assistant, with all its integrations, in the home-assistant/core repository.