HowTo install Cloudron CLI on Windows

[JOduMonT]

More by curiosity than actually dwelling to use it, I figure I might be not the only fool who would try to run cloudron-cli on Windows (10).

basically

1. you install nodejs (hint: you don't need the chocolatey)
2. then you could npm install -g cloudron
3. to exectute cloudron.ps1, you have to allow unsigned PowerShellScript; by applying this policy:
   Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope LocalMachine through a Windows PowerShell as Administrator.

and voilà!

[LoudLemur]

@jodumont You are awesome!

[nebulon]

Thanks for sharing. I have no clue about powershell, but why is this required in the first place? Does one need to sign executables somehow on win10 for this to work without such settings?

[msbt]

the same works in the regular cmd.exe (if you start it with admin credentials) without the PS stuff

[JOduMonT]

@nebulon said in HowTo install Cloudron CLI on Windows:

Does one need to sign executables somehow on win10 for this to work without such settings?

I have no clue, I'm a Linux Guy LOL

[LoudLemur]

Lets stay with this a little longer, as we might be on the brink of enabling a ton of M$FT users to get on board with Cloudron...

We have just seen how to install Cloudron on Windows. There are a few more steps that would need to be shown. (This would be a good use case for a video explainer.)

• Associating the Cloudron instance with a domain name
• Getting the Cloudron through the home's router to the wide world
• Some basic hardening of the deployment

Could somebody please outline these steps?

[thpuffin]

@loudlemur As far as I know Cloudron installations are only for Ubuntu. This is just the CLI to interact with your Cloudron that you install on an Ubuntu machine, if you use a computer that runs Windows.

[LoudLemur]

@thpuffin OK, thanks. I think a lot of Windows users might be able to install GNU+Linux on a spare, perhaps old, home computer, for example, Ubuntu. Maybe we could have an explainer video on what to do "after you have installed Ubuntu".

[robi]

@loudlemur one can always install a VM and/or WSL2

[LoudLemur]

@robi What a good idea! OK, so then, lets have a video on how run Cloudron from a GNU+Linux guest on Windows host and get it through the router.

[murgero]

@jodumont If you run the node file for cloudron directly (add it to your PATH) you don't need the set-executionpolicy bit. Node is separate from powershell and as such it can run without that.