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title: 🌩️ Get started
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date: 2026-01-04
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## Prepare a domain name
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Your wild cloud applications will be accessible on the internet through a domain name (like `mydomain.org`). When you install public applications on your wild cloud they will, by default, be made available on a subdomain of your domain (like `discourse.mydomain.org`).
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If you don't already have a domain name, we recommend registering one with [Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/). Currently, Wild Cloud requires Cloudflare features for automatic management of domain configuration and security certificates. You __can__ have your domain registered with any registrar, but you will need to use Cloudflare's DNS services for your domain. This is free and easy to set up.
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For now, just make sure you have a domain name ready and that your DNS is managed by Cloudflare. You will configure it in Wild Central later.
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## Gather your hardware
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To set up your wild cloud, you will need some basic hardware. Here are the minimum requirements:
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<div class="grid grid-cols-3 gap-4">
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<div>
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{{< figure
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src="./flint2.jpg"
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title="LAN Router"
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caption="Your LAN router connects your local network to the internet."
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>}}
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</div>
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<div>
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{{< figure
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src="./switch.jpg"
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class=""
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title="A network switch"
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caption="A network switch is used to connect multiple devices on your local network."
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>}}
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</div>
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<div>
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{{< figure
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src="./wild-central.jpg"
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title="Wild Central"
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caption="Wild Central is the heart of your wild cloud, running on an inexpensive computer like a Raspberry Pi."
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>}}
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</div>
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<div>
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{{< figure
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src="./micro-pc.jpg"
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title="Inexpensive computer"
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caption="You'll need at least six additional computers (three control nodes and three worker nodes)."
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>}}
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</div>
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<div>
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{{< figure
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src="./ups.jpg"
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title="An uninterruptible power supply (UPS)"
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caption="A UPS helps keep your wild cloud running during short power outages."
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>}}
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</div>
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</div>
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## Set up Wild Central
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The heart of your wild cloud is _Wild Central_, an inexpensive computer that runs on your local network that helps you set up and manage your wild cloud. Wild Central can be set up on an inexpensive computer (around $100USD), like a Raspberry Pi. My Wild Central looks like this:
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Wild Central does several things for you:
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- Helps you set up one or more wild clouds on your network.
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- Handles internal networking for your cloud. Wild Central allows computers on your network to find the internal apps deployed on your cloud.
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- Handles external networking for your cloud. Traffic will be routed from the internet, through your LAN router, to Wild Central, and then to the appropriate app on your cloud.
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- Allows you to install apps from the Wild Directory to your cloud with a few clicks.
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- Monitors the health of your cloud and notifies you if something goes wrong.
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After you set up Wild Central, it runs on your network without a display or keyboard. You access it on your network through any web browser. Although you can install Wild Cloud on any computer, it is best to have a standalone device as Wild Central needs to be always on.
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Setting up Wild Central:
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- Prepare a machine for Wild Central. This can be a Raspberry Pi or any other inexpensive computer running Ubuntu Linux.
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- Download and install the Wild Central software on your machine.
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- Access Wild Central through your web browser.
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## Set up your networking
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Once Wild Central is set up, you need to instruct your LAN router (the device that connects your local network to the internet) to use Wild Central in two ways:
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- Forward incoming web traffic (HTTP and HTTPS) to Wild Central. This allows external users to access the public apps deployed on your wild cloud.
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- Use Wild Central as the DNS server for your network. This allows devices on your network to find the internal apps deployed on your wild cloud.
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## Set up your cloud
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- Create your Wild Cloud instance
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- Set up your control nodes
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- Set up your worker nodes
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- Install services
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## Install your apps!
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- Add apps
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