diff --git a/recipes/odoo/crud.sh b/recipes/odoo/crud.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..9c3b506
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/odoo/crud.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,214 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+function check_database_exists() {
+    db-psql list | grep -q "$longname"
+}
+
+function check_port_used() {
+    # shellcheck disable=SC2034
+    usedport=$(lxc exec "$container" -- bash -c "grep xmlrpc_port /etc/odoo/$shortname.conf | cut -d' ' -f3")
+    [[ "$usedport" == "$port" ]]
+}
+
+function check_service_running() {
+    lxc exec "$container" -- bash -c "systemctl is-active --quiet ${longname}.service"
+}
+
+function _read() {
+    disable_trace
+    check_database_exists
+    check_container "$container"
+    check_port_used
+    check_service_running
+    enable_trace
+    return 0
+}
+
+function _create() {
+
+    echo "creating templates ... "
+    mkdir -p "$MIAOU_CONFIGDIR/apps/odoo"
+
+    longport=$((port + 1000))
+    APP_PORT=$port LONG_PORT=$longport APP_NAME=$shortname tera -e -t "$MIAOU_BASEDIR/templates/apps/odoo/odoo.conf.j2" -o "$MIAOU_CONFIGDIR/apps/odoo/$shortname.conf" "$MIAOU_CONFIGDIR/miaou.expanded.yaml" >/dev/null
+    APP_NAME=$shortname tera -t "$MIAOU_BASEDIR/templates/apps/odoo/odoo.service.j2" --env-only -o "$MIAOU_CONFIGDIR/apps/odoo/$longname.service" >/dev/null
+    echo "creating templates ... OK"
+
+    echo "copying files to container <$container> ... "
+    lxc file push --uid 0 --gid 0 "$MIAOU_CONFIGDIR/apps/odoo/$shortname.conf" "$container/etc/odoo/$shortname.conf"
+    lxc file push --uid 0 --gid 0 "$MIAOU_CONFIGDIR/apps/odoo/$longname.service" "$container/etc/systemd/system/$longname.service"
+    echo "copying files to container <$container> ... OK"
+
+    echo "create data folder for $shortname"
+    cat <<EOF | lxc_exec "$container"
+        set -Eeuo pipefail
+        
+        echo allow addons writable for user odoo
+        mkdir -p /home/odoo/data-$shortname/addons/18.0
+        chmod u+w /home/odoo/data-$shortname/addons/18.0
+        chown -R odoo:odoo /home/odoo/data-$shortname
+EOF
+
+    if ! (db-psql list | grep -q "$longname"); then
+        echo "create empty database <$longname> ... "
+        db-psql create "$longname"
+        echo "create empty database <$longname> ... OK"
+
+        admin_username=$(echo -e "$data" | yq '.admin.username')
+        [[ $admin_username = 'null' ]] && echoerr "odoo recipe requires \`data:admin:username\` into miaou.yaml service definition of <$fqdn>" && exit 1
+
+        admin_password=$(echo -e "$data" | yq '.admin.password')
+        [[ $admin_password = 'null' ]] && echoerr "odoo recipe requires \`data:admin:password\` into miaou.yaml service definition of <$fqdn>" && exit 1
+
+        cat <<EOF | lxc_exec "$container"
+            set -Eeuo pipefail
+            
+            echo reloading systemd
+            systemctl daemon-reload
+            systemctl stop $longname
+
+            echo initialize database...
+            su odoo -c "python3.10 /home/odoo/odoo/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo/$shortname.conf -i base --without-demo=all --stop-after-init"
+            echo initialize database OK
+
+            echo install default modules ...
+            su odoo -c "python3.10 /home/odoo/odoo/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo/$shortname.conf -i account,contacts,l10n_fr,account,sale,point_of_sale -d $longname --worker=0 --stop-after-init"
+            echo default modules OK
+
+            echo activate french language
+            su odoo -c "python3.10 /home/odoo/odoo/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo/$shortname.conf --load-language fr_FR -d $longname --worker=0 --stop-after-init"
+
+            echo change administrator password, default credential applied!
+            echo "UPDATE res_users SET login='$admin_username', password='$admin_password' WHERE id=2" | PGPASSWORD=$longname psql -U $longname -h ct1.lxd
+
+EOF
+    else
+        echo "database already exists!"
+    fi
+
+    echo "initialize odoo $shortname $longname ..."
+    cat <<EOF | lxc_exec "$container"
+        set -Eeuo pipefail
+        
+        echo reloading systemd
+        systemctl daemon-reload
+
+        if ! systemctl is-active --quiet $longname; then
+            echo start service $longname
+            systemctl enable $longname
+            systemctl start $longname
+            systemctl is-active --quiet $longname
+        else
+            echo service $longname already started!
+        fi
+
+EOF
+    echo "initialize odoo $shortname $longname ... OK"
+}
+
+function _update() {
+    echo "update"
+}
+
+function _delete() {
+    echo "delete"
+}
+
+function usage() {
+    echo "Usage: $COMMAND_NAME -c|r|u|d --port $port --fqdn $fqdn --container $container --name $name --data $data"
+    exit 2
+}
+
+### MAIN
+
+# init_strict
+
+COMMAND_NAME=$(basename "$0")
+
+# read the options
+
+TEMP=$(getopt -n "$COMMAND_NAME" -o crud --long port:,container:,name:,fqdn:,domain:,subdomain:,data: -- "$@")
+# shellcheck disable=SC2181
+[[ "$?" -eq 0 ]] || usage
+eval set -- "$TEMP"
+
+action="unset"
+port="unset"
+fqdn="unset"
+container="unset"
+shortname="unset"
+longname="unset"
+data="unset"
+
+# extract options and their arguments into variables.
+while true; do
+    case "$1" in
+    --port)
+        port=$2
+        shift 2
+        ;;
+    --fqdn)
+        fqdn=$2
+        shift 2
+        ;;
+    --container)
+        container=$2
+        shift 2
+        ;;
+    --name)
+        shortname=$2
+        longname="odoo-$shortname"
+        shift 2
+        ;;
+    --data)
+        data=$2
+        shift 2
+        ;;
+    --domain)
+        shift 2
+        ;;
+    --subdomain)
+        shift 2
+        ;;
+    -c)
+        [[ "$action" == "unset" ]] || usage
+        action="_create"
+        shift 1
+        ;;
+    -r)
+        [[ "$action" == "unset" ]] || usage
+        action="_read"
+        shift 1
+        ;;
+    -u)
+        [[ "$action" == "unset" ]] || usage
+        action="_update"
+        shift 1
+        ;;
+    -d)
+        [[ "$action" == "unset" ]] || usage
+        action="_delete"
+        shift 1
+        ;;
+    --)
+        shift
+        break
+        ;;
+    *)
+        echoerr "Internal error: unrecognized option: <$1>"
+        exit 1
+        ;;
+    esac
+done
+
+[[ 
+    "$action" != unset &&
+    "$port" != unset &&
+    "$fqdn" != unset &&
+    "$container" != unset &&
+    "$shortname" != unset &&
+    "$data" != unset ]] || usage
+
+. "$MIAOU_BASEDIR/lib/init.sh"
+
+$action
diff --git a/recipes/odoo/install.sh b/recipes/odoo/install.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..eb443f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/odoo/install.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+readonly EXPANDED_CONF="$MIAOU_CONFIGDIR/miaou.expanded.yaml"
+readonly ODOO_DIR="/home/odoo/odoo"
+
+readonly WKHTML_VERSION="0.12.6.1-3"
+readonly WKHTML_RELEASE="$WKHTML_VERSION.bookworm_amd64"
+
+function check_user_odoo() {
+    (lxc exec "$CONTAINER" -- id odoo &>/dev/null) || return 12
+    return 0
+}
+
+function check_target_bgcolor() {
+    (lxc exec "$CONTAINER" -- grep -Pq "^\\\$o-community-color: $BACKGROUND_COLOR" "$ODOO_DIR/addons/web/static/src/legacy/scss/primary_variables.scss") || return 13
+    return 0
+}
+
+function check_file_odoo-addon-install() {
+    (lxc exec "$CONTAINER" -- test -f /home/odoo/odoo/odoo-addon-install) || return 23
+    return 0
+}
+
+function check() {
+    PREFIX="recipe:odoo:check"
+    check_user_odoo || return 21
+    check_target_bgcolor || return 22
+    check_file_odoo-addon-install || return 23
+}
+
+function install() {
+    PREFIX="recipe:odoo:install"
+    : $PREFIX
+    launch_container "$CONTAINER"
+    echo "initializing Odoo ... "
+
+    lxc exec "$CONTAINER" -- bash <<EOF
+        set -Eeuo pipefail
+        echo "installing odoo..."
+        apt update && apt dist-upgrade -y
+
+        echo "required packages"
+        apt install -y postgresql-client build-essential zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev libpq-dev libffi-dev
+
+        if [[ ! -d /usr/local/share/python3.10 ]]; then
+            echo "install python-3.10.17"
+            cd /tmp
+            wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.17/Python-3.10.17.tgz
+            tar -xf Python-3.10.17.tgz
+            mv Python-3.10.17 /usr/local/share/python3.10
+            cd /usr/local/share/python3.10
+            ./configure --enable-optimizations --enable-shared
+            make -j \$(nproc)
+            make altinstall
+            ldconfig /usr/local/share/python3.10
+        else
+            echo "python-3.10.17 already installed!"
+        fi
+
+        if dpkg -l | grep -s wkhtmltox | grep -qs $WKHTML_VERSION; then
+            echo package=wkhtmltox version=$WKHTML_RELEASE already found!
+        else
+            echo "wkhtmltox version=$WKHTML_RELEASE has to be installed!"
+            wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/$WKHTML_VERSION/wkhtmltox_$WKHTML_RELEASE.deb
+            dpkg -i wkhtmltox_$WKHTML_RELEASE.deb || (apt -fy install && rm wkhtmltox_$WKHTML_RELEASE.deb)
+        fi
+
+        if ! grep -q odoo /etc/passwd; then
+            echo "add user <odoo>"
+            useradd -ms /bin/bash odoo
+        else
+            echo "user <odoo> already set!"
+        fi
+
+        echo "install odoo in odoo userspace"
+        cat <<EOT | su - odoo
+            set -Eeuo pipefail
+
+            if [[ ! -d odoo ]]; then
+                echo "git odoo from remote"
+                git clone https://github.com/odoo/odoo.git --depth 1 --branch 18.0 odoo
+                export MAKEFLAGS="-j\$(nproc)"
+                pip3.10 install --upgrade pip
+                pip3.10 install wheel pypdf2 slugify 
+                pip3.10 install -r odoo/requirements.txt
+            else
+                echo "git odoo already downloaded!"
+            fi
+            echo "community-color change to $BACKGROUND_COLOR"
+            /opt/miaou-bash/tools/append_or_replace "^.*o-community-color:.*" "\\\\\\\$o-community-color: $BACKGROUND_COLOR !default;" /home/odoo/odoo/addons/web/static/src/legacy/scss/primary_variables.scss
+
+EOT
+    mkdir -p /etc/odoo
+EOF
+    lxc file push "$MIAOU_BASEDIR/templates/apps/odoo/odoo-addon-install" "$CONTAINER/home/odoo/odoo/odoo-addon-install"
+    lxc exec "$CONTAINER" -- bash <<EOF
+        chown odoo:odoo /home/odoo/odoo/odoo-addon-install
+        chmod 740 /home/odoo/odoo/odoo-addon-install
+        echo "new script <odoo-addon-install> added!"
+EOF
+}
+
+function compute_bgcolor_target() {
+    target=$(yq '.target' "$EXPANDED_CONF")
+    case "$target" in
+    dev) builtin echo "#17a2b8" ;;
+    beta) builtin echo "#79A70A" ;;
+    prod) builtin echo "#7C7BAD" ;;
+    *) echoerr "unknown target <$target>" && exit 10 ;;
+    esac
+}
+
+### MAIN
+
+. "$MIAOU_BASEDIR/lib/init.sh"
+arg1_required "$@"
+readonly CONTAINER="$1"
+BACKGROUND_COLOR=$(compute_bgcolor_target)
+readonly BACKGROUND_COLOR
+
+check || (
+    install
+    check
+)
diff --git a/templates/apps/odoo/odoo-addon-install b/templates/apps/odoo/odoo-addon-install
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3c366c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/apps/odoo/odoo-addon-install
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+CLIENT=$1
+ADDON=$2
+
+function usage() {
+    echo 'usage: <CLIENT> <ADDON>'
+    exit 100
+}
+
+# VERIFICATION
+
+[[ -z "$CLIENT" || -z "$ADDON" ]] && usage
+[[ ! -d "/home/odoo/data-${CLIENT}" ]] && echo "unknown CLIENT <${CLIENT}>, should exist in folder /home/odoo/data-..." && exit 2
+
+URL="https://pypi.org/project/odoo-addon-${ADDON}/"
+curl --output /dev/null --silent --head --fail "${URL}"
+[[ $? -ne 0 ]] && echo "unknown ADDON <${ADDON}>, should be downloadable from: ${URL}" && exit 3
+
+[[ -d "/home/odoo/data-${CLIENT}/addons/18.0/${ADDON}" ]] && echo "ADDON <${ADDON}> already exists, consider removing  manually!" && exit 4
+
+# ACTION
+
+package=$(curl -Ls "$URL" | rg '<a href="(https://files.pythonhosted.org/.*)">' -r '$1')
+wget $package -O /tmp/package.zip
+rm /tmp/ADDON -rf && mkdir /tmp/ADDON
+unzip /tmp/package.zip 'odoo/addons/*' -d /tmp/ADDON/
+real_name=$(unzip -l /tmp/package.zip | head -n4 | tail -n1 | cut -d'/' -f3)
+chown -R odoo:odoo /tmp/ADDON/
+mv /tmp/ADDON/odoo/addons/* "/home/odoo/data-$CLIENT/addons/18.0/"
+
+# ADD
+su odoo -c "python3.10 /home/odoo/odoo/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo/$CLIENT.conf -i $real_name -d odoo-$CLIENT --worker=0 --stop-after-init"
diff --git a/templates/apps/odoo/odoo.conf.j2 b/templates/apps/odoo/odoo.conf.j2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b962302
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/apps/odoo/odoo.conf.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+[options]
+data_dir = /home/odoo/data-{{ APP_NAME }}
+
+xmlrpc_port = {{ APP_PORT }}
+longpolling_port = {{ LONG_PORT }}
+
+db_host = ct1.lxd
+db_name = odoo-{{ APP_NAME }}
+db_user = odoo-{{ APP_NAME }}
+db_password = odoo-{{ APP_NAME }}
+list_db = {{ target != 'prod'}}
+
+workers = 2
+db_maxconn = 10
+db_filter = .*
+syslog = True
+proxy_mode = True
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/templates/apps/odoo/odoo.service.j2 b/templates/apps/odoo/odoo.service.j2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..78a48ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/apps/odoo/odoo.service.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Odoo {{ APP_NAME }}
+After=network.target
+
+[Service]
+Type=simple
+SyslogIdentifier=odoo-{{ APP_NAME }}
+PermissionsStartOnly=true
+User=odoo
+Group=odoo
+ExecStart=python3.10 /home/odoo/odoo/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo/{{ APP_NAME }}.conf
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
\ No newline at end of file