Download Roost Desktop for Free & Get a Taste of the Power of an EaaS Platform
With the Free desktop version of the Roost Platform you can experience just how fast and easy it is to get multi-node Kubernetes clusters running locally within minutes. You can achieve real-time live service collaboration in a secure environment across OS Platforms and code, build, deploy and observe cloud-native micro services.
Roost Pre-requisites for Mac OS (Darwin)
- Min 8 GB RAM (at least 4GB should be free)
- VM Instance: Virtualisation should be enabled
- Min Free Disk space 30 GB
- Mac OS Version 10.0 or later
- Install Git
- Download DMG and install. Allow app permissions in Apple Security
- Search for "Roost" in Applications (Finder)
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Roost Pre-requisites for Ubuntu and Debian
- Min 8 GB RAM (at least 4GB should be free)
- VM Instance: Virtualisation should be enabled (nested, if running inside a VM)
- Min Free Disk space 30 GB
- Install Git
- sudo apt update
- sudo apt install -y qemu-kvm nfs-server net-tools curl virt-manager genisoimage
- For 16.04 LTS or 18.04 LTS or less than 18.10 (sudo apt install -y libvirt-bin virtinst libstdc++6 curl)
- For 20.04 LTS or >= 18.10 (sudo apt install -y libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients bridge-utils)
- sudo dpkg -i Roost-amd64-1.9.65.deb
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Roost Pre-requisites for Windows 10
- Min 8 GB RAM (at least 4 GB should be free)
- VM Instance: Virtualisation should be enabled
- Min Free Disk space 30 GB
- Virtualisation is enabled at firmware level (BIOS)
- For Pro/Server/Enterprise (64 bit) - Hyper-V is enabled "Turn on/off windows features"
- For Home Edition (64 bit) - Install VirtualBox
- Install Git
- Download EXE and install.
- Search for RoostDesktop and execute (grant admin permissions when asked)