CKAN lets governments, research institutions, and companies publish data as a searchable catalog, where every dataset carries its description, license, tags, and downloadable files. Organizations own their datasets, and members, editors, and admins get different rights, so a dataset can stay private until someone with publishing rights releases it. Visitors narrow results with faceted filters on tags, formats, and organizations, or write fielded queries with wildcards and fuzzy matching. Resource pages preview spreadsheets in a grid and, when the data fits, as maps and charts, and they also display images, PDFs, and HTML. The DataStore keeps tabular resources as queryable tables, serving filtered rows with range conditions and nested AND/OR logic. Everything the web interface does is also available through the Action API. Groups gather related datasets, and custom metadata fields extend each record. Per-dataset activity streams document how data changes, and follow buttons feed a personal news feed. Files can be stored on local disk or, with extensions, in S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage. Extensions add geospatial search, harvesting for federated portals, multilingual metadata, and more chart types, and themes restyle the portal to match your brand. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.