Stack Orchestrator allows building and deployment of a Laconic Stack on a single machine with minimial prerequisites. It is a Python3 CLI tool that runs on any OS with Python3 and Docker. The following diagram summarizes the relevant repositories in the Laconic Stack - and the relationship to Stack Orchestrator.
**To get started quickly** on a fresh Ubuntu instance (e.g, Digital Ocean); [try this script](./scripts/quick-install-linux.sh). **WARNING:** always review scripts prior to running them so that you know what is happening on your machine.
Note: if installing docker-compose via package manager on Linux (as opposed to Docker Desktop), you must [install the plugin](https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/linux/#install-the-plugin-manually), e.g. :
Next decide on a directory where you would like to put the stack-orchestrator program. Typically this would be a "user" binary directory such as `~/bin` or perhaps `/usr/local/laconic` or possibly just the current working directory.
Now, having selected that directory, download the latest release from [this page](https://git.vdb.to/cerc-io/stack-orchestrator/tags) into it (we're using `~/bin` below for concreteness but edit to suit if you selected a different directory). Also be sure that the destination directory exists and is writable:
If Stack Orchestrator was installed using the process described above, it is able to subsequently self-update to the current latest version by running:
