Stop Paying for Cloud: Deploy a Highly Available Cluster on Your Own Hardware in Minutes

A 4-node highly available cluster with distributed storage, software-defined networking, and automatic failover. About 30 minutes to deploy. No Terraform. No Ansible playbooks. No 47-page architecture doc. That's Canonical's MicroCloud: lightweight, repeatable cluster deployments built for edge computing and distributed workloads. Here's the full walkthrough. TL;DR: Install 4 snaps, run microcloud init on one node, microcloud join on the others, answer the storage/networking wizard, and you have a production-ready HA cluster. Full walkthrough below. 1. What Hardware Do You Actually Need? Before touching the command line, you need the right hardware for your target environment. MicroCloud is flexible enough to support both lightweight test setups and production clusters. Test/Development Environments MicroCloud is lightweight enough that a test setup can start with a single-member deployment. You need as little as 8 GB of RAM per machine, and local storage is often sufficient. Highly Av