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title: 🌩️ Get started
date: 2025-08-06
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series:
  - Wild Cloud Setup
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---

You've decided to see what is involved in this 🌩️ "Wild Cloud" thing. Welcome!

What follows is a step-by-step setup guide for early adopters. We'll do our best to keep these instructions in sync with the latest Wild Cloud software.

## 🚧 Under Construction 🚧 

First of all, <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 0, 0.4);">Wild Cloud is in active development</span> as are these pages. We prefer to develop things "in the open" since this is a community project. <u>Feel free to try things out now</u> (we have two pilot clouds running), but <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 0, 0.4);">expect some bumps**</span> until we get everything sorted and remove this notice.

## Take your time!

One of our big objective with Wild Cloud is to make Internet technology more accessible to everyone. We want setting up and maintaining your wild cloud to be a fun learning experience, so you'll find that we interject {{< icon "circle-info" "#05df72" >}} definitions, and let you {{< icon "graduation-cap" "#5d0ec0" >}} go deeper with tips or entire articles, but we always bring things {{< icon "sun" "#fff085" >}} back around to your own wild cloud where you can try things out first-hand. 


All of the technology we use in Wild Cloud is open source and widely used, so investing time to really learn the concepts in this setup guide will be well spent.

## The path ahead

The following pages will guide you through buying your wild cloud hardware, setting up each of the various components, and, in the end, deploying applications and managing your wild cloud.


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