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# eitri – the cloud you already own

*The ease of a cloud provider, backed by what you own*

## DESCRIPTION

eitri takes the machines you already have and lets you build out your
own personal cloud: VMs on your own hardware, managed without
complexity (repurposed e-waste!).

Software has never been easier to produce. eitri gives you a way to
run it safely: create a VM in seconds, manage your own fleet, and even
point your favourite LLM at it.

Boot a throwaway sandbox for a risky experiment. Keep a dev machine that
survives host reboots. Give an AI agent a VM where it can run wild. Delete
any of it when you're done.

## HOW IT WORKS

Run the server on one box; join the rest with one command each. Click
**+ Create VM** and a fresh VM boots in seconds—open its console in the
browser, or SSH in with certificates signed by your own CA (eitri never
holds your keys).

## GETTING IT

Prebuilt tarballs and checksums: [downloads](/dl/). No installer—unpack,
run, done. The [quickstart](quickstart.md) takes you from zero to a first
VM; the [FAQ](faq.md) covers the sharp edges.