Concepts
These pages explain the ideas Ordo is built around. They are short by design: each page ties one piece of terminology to the behaviour you will see in the CLI and web UI.
Topics
Section titled “Topics”- Identity — operator and agent keypairs, approval, and identity pinning
- Tags — key-value labels on agents, and the tag selectors that target groups of machines
- Desired state — declaring what a machine should look like, in YAML modules
- Drift — what happens when the actual state of a machine no longer matches what was declared
- Modules and apply history — packaging state, applying it, and tracking what was applied where
- Secrets — how secrets reach the machines that need them without the orchestrator ever holding plaintext
- Audit — the record of every significant action taken on the fleet