This page describes how to run Cuttlefish on an on-premise server. To run Cuttlefish on an on-premise server, you must use the Cuttlefish Docker image and the Cloud Orchestrator web service.
The Cuttlefish Docker image includes all the required dependencies for launching Cuttlefish in a container. This Docker image lets you set up the infrastructure for running Cuttlefish instances remotely on different host environments and lets you launch Cuttlefish independently from your host machine's setup, for example OS variant (Debian, Linux), OS version, architecture variant (x86_64, ARM64), and other installation dependencies.
The
Cloud Orchestrator
is a web service for hosting VMs or containers that you can run Cuttlefish on.
cvdr
is a client-side command line interface for interacting with the Cloud
Orchestrator.
Set up an on-premise server for running Cuttlefish
To set up an on-premise server for running Cuttlefish, follow the instructions in Activate cloud orchestrator at on-premise server. These instructions describe how to run Cloud Orchestrator, which downloads and runs the Cuttlefish Docker image as a host.
Use
cvdr
to interact with Cloud orchestrator to create, delete, and list hosts and
Cuttlefish instances.
Download the Cuttlefish Docker image
To download the Cuttlefish Docker image, follow the instructions in android-cuttlefish/docker/README.md on GitHub.