Getting a machine

Edgible runs on a computer you control. If you have a spare one, use that. If not, here are the other ways, and your AI assistant can do most of the work for each.

What Edgible needs

Whichever you choose, tell your AI these, so it gets them right:

• Ubuntu 24.04 or 26.04, or a Mac. On Windows, Ubuntu 26.04 in WSL2 is what we suggest first, a virtual machine if you want it kept apart from your own system. WSL2 works, but WSL stops when nothing is using it, so it needs a small scheduled task to stay up, and it stops when Windows sleeps. Your AI sets this up and asks first.
• Memory: 2 GB for a website, 4 GB for an AI gateway, 8 GB for your own AI agent with its gateway.
• Disk: 20 to 30 GB free.
• Internet out, and no ports in. Edgible connects out, so there's nothing to open in a firewall or router. If your AI offers to open a port for Edgible, say no.
• On when you need it. For apps other people use, a machine that stays on.

A virtual machine on your own computer

A virtual machine is a whole computer running inside yours. We use Multipass, Canonical's free tool for Ubuntu virtual machines, on a Mac, Windows or Linux. In Claude Code on your computer, say:

Create an Ubuntu 26.04 virtual machine with Multipass, named edgible-vm, with 2 CPUs, 8 GB memory and 30 GB disk. Install Multipass first if it isn't here. Don't open any ports.

It takes a few minutes. Then, in Get Edgible running, Claude Code stays on your computer and sets up the virtual machine from there. Say this in place of step 3:

Set up Edgible on the Multipass virtual machine named edgible-vm, so I can run my own apps there.

And in step 4:

Is Edgible running on the edgible-vm?

The virtual machine runs while your computer is on and awake. For anything other people rely on, choose a spare computer or a cloud server instead.

One thing to know about its clock. When your computer sleeps, the virtual machine stops with it, and can wake hours behind. Edgible then refuses the machine's requests without saying why: an app waits for ever for its certificate, or a sign-in code is rejected. Your AI sets the machine's clock to correct itself when it makes it, so this should be rare. If it ever happens, say:

Check the clock on edgible-vm.

It's a quick fix, and nothing is lost.

A small cloud server

A server you rent by the month, from Hetzner, DigitalOcean or AWS Lightsail for example. You make the account and pay; your AI walks you through the rest:

Help me create a small Ubuntu 26.04 server at Hetzner with 8 GB memory. Sign-in with an SSH key only, and no inbound ports except SSH. I'll install Edgible on it.

Then, in Get Edgible running, say this in place of step 3, with your server's address:

Set up Edgible on my server, which I reach with ssh root@203.0.113.10, so I can run my own apps there.

And in step 4, "Is Edgible running on my server?"

A spare computer

An old laptop or desktop works well. A Mac can run Edgible as it is: just set it not to sleep. A PC is best wiped and given Ubuntu:

Help me put Ubuntu 26.04 on my old PC, so it can run Edgible all the time. I have a USB stick.

Then follow Get Edgible running on that computer, or from your own, as above.

What you've just done

You have a machine for Edgible, without buying anything you didn't need, and your AI did the fiddly parts.

• A virtual machine is a whole Ubuntu server, free, inside your own computer, and nothing on your computer itself changed. Not sure about it? Say "Delete the edgible-vm", and it's gone.
• A cloud server or a spare computer stays on, so it's ready for apps other people rely on.
• Either way, you can change your mind. Start in a virtual machine, and when other people come to rely on your apps, your AI can move them to a machine that stays on, data and all.