Hey community! I am facing issues with the installation of Orchest on my local machine (Windows). Is it possible to install minikube and set up Orchest using the commands

curl -fsSL <https://get.orchest.io> > convenience_install.sh \
    && bash convenience_install.sh

on WSL 2 and access the service by running

minikube ip

on WSL 2 command line and accessing it on my Windows browser?

Windows support is no longer officially maintained, but in WSL 2 you should be able to get it running if you really want to run it in Windows instead of in a Linux VM (e.g. EC2). What's the issue you're running into?

I tried to follow this documentation (https://docs.orchest.io/en/stable/getting_started/installation.html#managing-your-orchest-installation) and as it said that I need to have docker and kubernetes cluster running as a prerequisite, I followed this blog (https://linuxhint.com/install-minikube-ubuntu/) for installing Minikube and starting it with docker environment. Then once my minikube was up and running, I ran this command provided in the official documentation:

curl -fsSL <https://get.orchest.io> > convenience_install.sh \
    && bash convenience_install.sh

Once this ran successfully, I went to the IP provided by the command

minikube ip

but it threw a 'Problem Loading Page' error. This is true for both WSL2 and Ubuntu running on Oracle VirtualBox

Generally, you probably shouldn't run

minikube

inside VirtualBox. It will likely not give you good performance, compared to a production grade virtualized environment like EC2 instances or similar Linux instances with various cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure). Locally, you could run Orchest with

minikube

if you're booted into Linux (non-virtualized), and that should work well too. In principle,

minikube

in VirtualBox with the VirtualBox virtualized operating system as Ubuntu should work. But the error

Problem Loading Page

isn't very descriptive. Because it's not a supported configuration we haven't tried that setup ourselves, to dig deeper we'd have to reproduce an installation to see if we encounter the same error. My recommendation would be to either spin up an EC2 instance, use a supported configuration or use https://cloud.orchest.io for a managed Orchest instance (there's a completely free option).

Are there any differences in the features provided in the cloud and local versions?

Are there any differences in the features provided in the cloud and local versions?

No differences 🙂

And can you share a complete guide about how one should set up everything (even the prerequisites) for working with Orchest in Linux environment?

We don't have such a resource right now beyond the installation documentation. I'll make a note to in the future create a step-by-step tutorial for installation on Linux as a video on our YouTube channel. If you run into any specific challenges you can DM me the issues and I'll gladly point you in the right direction.

Can you share something on getting started with integrating Meltano with Orchest?

Absolutely! These are two example projects: • https://github.com/astrojuanlu/orchest-elt-meltano-dbt • https://github.com/astrojuanlu/orchest-google-analytics And we wrote a blog post about the latter: https://www.orchest.io/blog/google-analytics-data-with-orchest-and-meltano

Thank you