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title: Hardware
date: 2025-08-01
series:
- Wild Cloud Setup
series_order: 2
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## Get your hardware
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Six of the computers run Talos Linux and are your "cluster nodes". One computer will run your local network's name server so you can access internal cloud applications. The last computer is just used to manage your cluster. Most of these computers can be small or old machines, and they are all managed by Wild Cloud, so don't think it's too expensive or complicated to get started. A really useful wild cloud can be built for less than the price of a new smart phone.
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In computing, the word "machine" goes back to Alan Turings 1936 concept of the Turing machine, and to early electromechanical computers like ENIAC that were literally giant calculating machines. Today, in Kubernetes and cloud systems, like your wild cloud, we still use the word "machine" to mean any physical or virtual computer that runs workloads.
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## Your "operator" machine
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## Next Steps
Now that you have your hardware, we can start setting things up! Follow the instructions in the [Setup Wild Cloud](../setup-wild-cloud/) guide to get started.
Now that you have your hardware, let's make sure you've [acquired a domain name](../get-a-domain-name/) guide to get started.