# lakeFS Documentation

> Version Control for Data Lakes and Lakehouses

lakeFS adds Git-like version control to data lakes and lakehouses, with branches, commits, merges and rollbacks over object storage. It ships as lakeFS Community, lakeFS Team and lakeFS Enterprise, and these docs cover all three.

## Start here

- [Welcome to lakeFS](<https://docs.lakefs.io/index.md>)
- [lakeFS Editions](<https://docs.lakefs.io/editions/index.md>)
- [6️⃣ Actions and hooks](<https://docs.lakefs.io/quickstart/actions-and-hooks/index.md>)
- [3️⃣ Create a branch](<https://docs.lakefs.io/quickstart/branch/index.md>)
- [4️⃣ Commit and merge](<https://docs.lakefs.io/quickstart/commit-and-merge/index.md>)
- [Overview](<https://docs.lakefs.io/quickstart/index.md>)
- [1️⃣ Run lakeFS](<https://docs.lakefs.io/quickstart/launch/index.md>)
- [Next steps](<https://docs.lakefs.io/quickstart/learning-more-lakefs/index.md>)
- [2️⃣ Query the data](<https://docs.lakefs.io/quickstart/query/index.md>)
- [5️⃣ Roll back changes](<https://docs.lakefs.io/quickstart/rollback/index.md>)
- [7️⃣ Work with data locally](<https://docs.lakefs.io/quickstart/work-with-data-locally/index.md>)
- [Data Curation](<https://docs.lakefs.io/use-cases/data-curation/index.md>)
- [Data Isolation and Sandboxing](<https://docs.lakefs.io/use-cases/isolated-environments/index.md>)
- [Reproducibility](<https://docs.lakefs.io/use-cases/reproducibility/index.md>)
- [Unified Data Management](<https://docs.lakefs.io/use-cases/unified-data-management/index.md>)
- [Architecture](<https://docs.lakefs.io/concepts/architecture/index.md>)
- [Async Commit and Merge](<https://docs.lakefs.io/concepts/async-commit-merge/index.md>)
- [Internals](<https://docs.lakefs.io/concepts/internals/index.md>)
- [Performance Best Practices](<https://docs.lakefs.io/concepts/performance-best-practices/index.md>)

## Guides

- [Branch Lifecycle](<https://docs.lakefs.io/guides/branch-lifecycle/index.md>)
- [Data Catalog Exports](<https://docs.lakefs.io/guides/catalog-exports/index.md>)
- [Copy Data](<https://docs.lakefs.io/guides/copying/index.md>)
- [Custom Object Viewer](<https://docs.lakefs.io/guides/custom-viewers/index.md>)
- [Export Data](<https://docs.lakefs.io/guides/export/index.md>)
- [Airflow Hooks](<https://docs.lakefs.io/guides/hooks/airflow/index.md>)
- [Hooks Overview](<https://docs.lakefs.io/guides/hooks/index.md>)
- [Lua Hooks](<https://docs.lakefs.io/guides/hooks/lua/index.md>)
- [Webhooks](<https://docs.lakefs.io/guides/hooks/webhooks/index.md>)
- [Import Data](<https://docs.lakefs.io/guides/import/index.md>)
- [Work with Data Locally](<https://docs.lakefs.io/guides/local-checkouts/index.md>)
- [Metadata Search](<https://docs.lakefs.io/guides/metadata-search/index.md>)
- [Branch Protection](<https://docs.lakefs.io/guides/protect-branches/index.md>)
- [Pull Requests](<https://docs.lakefs.io/guides/pull-requests/index.md>)
- [Roll Back Changes](<https://docs.lakefs.io/guides/rollback/index.md>)
- [Overview](<https://docs.lakefs.io/guides/version-data/index.md>)
- [Iceberg REST Catalog](<https://docs.lakefs.io/iceberg/index.md>)
- [Mount lakeFS Repositories](<https://docs.lakefs.io/mount/index.md>)
- [Datasets](<https://docs.lakefs.io/datasets/index.md>)
- [Overview](<https://docs.lakefs.io/data-retention/index.md>)
- [Object Lifecycle](<https://docs.lakefs.io/data-retention/object-lifecycle/index.md>)

## Integrations

- [Airbyte](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/airbyte/index.md>)
- [Apache Airflow](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/airflow/index.md>)
- [AWS Glue &amp; Athena](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/athena/index.md>)
- [Databricks](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/databricks/index.md>)
- [Delta Lake](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/delta/index.md>)
- [Dremio](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/dremio/index.md>)
- [DuckDB](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/duckdb/index.md>)
- [Glue Data Catalog](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/glue_metastore/index.md>)
- [HuggingFace Datasets](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/huggingface_datasets/index.md>)
- [Overview](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/index.md>)
- [Apache Kafka](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/kafka/index.md>)
- [Kubeflow](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/kubeflow/index.md>)
- [LanceDB](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/lancedb/index.md>)
- [MLflow](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/mlflow/index.md>)
- [Trino / Presto](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/presto_trino/index.md>)
- [Red Hat OpenShift AI](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/red_hat_openshift_ai/index.md>)
- [Amazon SageMaker](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/sagemaker/index.md>)
- [Apache Spark](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/spark/index.md>)
- [Starburst Galaxy](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/starburst_galaxy/index.md>)
- [Unity Catalog](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/unity-catalog/index.md>)
- [Vertex AI](<https://docs.lakefs.io/integrations/vertex_ai/index.md>)

## Administration

- [Auditing](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/auditing/index.md>)
- [Backup and Restore](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/backup-and-restore/index.md>)
- [Staging Compaction](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/compaction/index.md>)
- [Overview](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/garbage-collection/index.md>)
- [Managed GC](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/garbage-collection/managed-gc/index.md>)
- [Standalone GC](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/garbage-collection/standalone-gc/index.md>)
- [AWS](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/install/aws/index.md>)
- [Azure](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/install/azure/index.md>)
- [Enterprise Self-Managed](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/install/enterprise/index.md>)
- [GCP](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/install/gcp/index.md>)
- [Hosted (lakeFS Cloud)](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/install/hosted/index.md>)
- [Overview](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/install/index.md>)
- [Migrate from Community to Enterprise](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/install/migrate-from-community/index.md>)
- [On-Premises](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/install/onprem/index.md>)
- [Migrating Away from lakeFS](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/migrate-away/index.md>)
- [Transactional Mirroring](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/mirroring/index.md>)
- [Monitoring with Prometheus](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/monitoring/index.md>)
- [Multiple Storage Backends](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/multiple-storage-backends/index.md>)
- [Private Link](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/private-link/index.md>)
- [Sizing Guide](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/sizing-guide/index.md>)
- [Troubleshooting](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/troubleshooting/index.md>)
- [Upgrade](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/upgrade/index.md>)
- [S3 Virtual-Host Addressing](<https://docs.lakefs.io/admin/virtual-host-addressing/index.md>)
- [Access Control in lakeFS Community](<https://docs.lakefs.io/security/access-control-lists/index.md>)
- [Authentication](<https://docs.lakefs.io/security/authentication/index.md>)
- [AWS IAM Roles](<https://docs.lakefs.io/security/external-principals-aws/index.md>)
- [Overview](<https://docs.lakefs.io/security/index.md>)
- [JWT Login (M2M)](<https://docs.lakefs.io/security/jwt-login/index.md>)
- [Presigned URLs](<https://docs.lakefs.io/security/presigned-url/index.md>)
- [Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)](<https://docs.lakefs.io/security/rbac/index.md>)
- [Remote Authenticator](<https://docs.lakefs.io/security/remote-authenticator/index.md>)
- [S3 Gateway Temporary Credentials](<https://docs.lakefs.io/security/s3-temporary-credentials/index.md>)
- [SCIM Provisioning](<https://docs.lakefs.io/security/scim/index.md>)
- [Single Sign-On (SSO)](<https://docs.lakefs.io/security/sso/index.md>)
- [Short-Lived Tokens (STS)](<https://docs.lakefs.io/security/sts-login/index.md>)
- [Tenants](<https://docs.lakefs.io/security/tenants/index.md>)

## Reference

- [Boto / S3 Gateway](<https://docs.lakefs.io/reference/python/boto/index.md>)
- [Branches &amp; Merging](<https://docs.lakefs.io/reference/python/branches/index.md>)
- [Data Operations](<https://docs.lakefs.io/reference/python/data-operations/index.md>)
- [Generated SDK](<https://docs.lakefs.io/reference/python/generated-sdk/index.md>)
- [Getting Started](<https://docs.lakefs.io/reference/python/getting-started/index.md>)
- [Overview](<https://docs.lakefs.io/reference/python/index.md>)
- [lakefs-spec (fsspec)](<https://docs.lakefs.io/reference/python/lakefs-spec/index.md>)
- [References, Commits &amp; Tags](<https://docs.lakefs.io/reference/python/refs/index.md>)
- [Transactions](<https://docs.lakefs.io/reference/python/transactions/index.md>)
- [Server Configuration](<https://docs.lakefs.io/reference/configuration/index.md>)
- [Enterprise Server Configuration](<https://docs.lakefs.io/reference/enterprise-configuration/index.md>)
- [S3 Gateway API](<https://docs.lakefs.io/reference/s3/index.md>)
- [Spark Metadata Client](<https://docs.lakefs.io/reference/spark-client/index.md>)
- [AWS CLI](<https://docs.lakefs.io/reference/aws-cli/index.md>)
- [R](<https://docs.lakefs.io/reference/r/index.md>)
- [MATLAB](<https://docs.lakefs.io/reference/matlab/index.md>)
- [lakectl](<https://docs.lakefs.io/reference/cli/oss/index.md>)

## Optional

- [Release Notes](<https://docs.lakefs.io/releases/index.md>)
- [FAQ](<https://docs.lakefs.io/resources/faq/index.md>)
- [Glossary](<https://docs.lakefs.io/resources/glossary/index.md>)
- [Enterprise SDK License](<https://docs.lakefs.io/resources/sdk-license/index.md>)