Operator machine

Table of Contents

Wild Cloud Setup - This article is part of a series.

Part 1: 🌩️ Get started

Part 2: Hardware

Part 3: Get a Domain Name

Part 4: This Article

Part 5: Set up your DNS server

Part 6: Set up your wild cloud

Part 7: Use your wild cloud

(This page assumes you already have your hardware ready to set up. If you don’t, read Setting Up Your Hardware).

Your operator machine
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Your operator machine is the computer you manage your wild cloud with. Below, we will install the Wild Cloud software on your operator machine.

Your operator machine should be a Linux machine on your LAN. It’s helpful if it has a nice big hard drive you can use for backing up your wild cloud data.

Install the Wild Cloud software
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We recognize that this part of the guide requires more knowledge of git and bash. We plan to create a wild CLI and perhaps even a GUI setup before wider release. For now, we are prototyping our (fully functional) POC by using scripts from this Wild Cloud repo.

Download the Wild Cloud software using git:

git clone https://git.civilsociety.dev/CSTF/wild-cloud.git

Add the bin directory to your path.

export PATH=$PATH:~/wild-cloud/bin

Install dependencies:

scripts/setup-utils.sh

Create your Wild Cloud Home
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Now that you have the Wild Cloud software installed, we are going to create a directory that will hold everything about your personal wild cloud. We call this your “Wild Cloud Home”.

Your Wild Cloud Home is the directory where all of your wild cloud data will be stored. This includes your configuration files, data files, and any other files related to your wild cloud.

You can put it in any directory. Here we show an example if you want to make a directory named my-wild-cloud in your home directory.

mkdir -p ~/my-wild-cloud
cd ~/my-wild-cloud
wild-cloud-scaffold

That’s it! Your wild cloud operator machine is ready to go! Most of the rest of the instructions in this guide will assume you are working within this directory.