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Hansal Shah

12/14/2022, 1:55 AM
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
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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?
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Rick Lamers

12/14/2022, 9:20 AM
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?
If you've decided (based on your other message) that you'd prefer to install in a support environment (Linux), you can also just relay what kind of issue you're getting there. We can guide you and update the docs in case anything in it is not correct. Sorry to hear it's not been a smooth experience! We'll try to make things simpler.
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Hansal Shah

12/14/2022, 11:38 AM
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:
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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
I am not able to reach orchest after following these steps. I think I missed something or something is wrong with the documentation.
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Rick Lamers

12/14/2022, 12:13 PM
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).
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Hansal Shah

12/14/2022, 1:27 PM
Are there any differences in the features provided in the cloud and local versions?
And can you share a complete guide about how one should set up everything (even the prerequisites) for working with Orchest in Linux environment?
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Rick Lamers

12/14/2022, 3:44 PM
Are there any differences in the features provided in the cloud and local versions?
No differences šŸ™‚
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.
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Hansal Shah

12/14/2022, 4:17 PM
Can you share something on getting started with integrating Meltano with Orchest?
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Rick Lamers

12/14/2022, 6:24 PM
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Hansal Shah

12/15/2022, 4:26 AM
Thank you
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