Getting started 🚀
Deploy a Cloud gaming instance using your own servers or directly on a Cloud provider like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
- 💰 While Cloudy Pad itself is free and open-source, charges may be incurred for Cloud provider usage. Make sure you understand the costs
- Cloudy Pad is Linux-based. Using Steam requires Proton. You can check your game compatibility on ProtonDB website or see how to play games on Steam.
Cloudy Pad App
Instructions below are aimed for tech-savvy users who are familiar with terms such as "server", "ssh" and "NVIDIA drivers".
If that's not your cup of tea, you might prefer to use Cloudy Pad App instead: a simple, intuitive web platform to deploy your gaming instance in a few minutes.
- Prerequisites
- Installation
- Choose your Provider
- Deploy your instance
- Stop your instance after gaming sessions
- Problem ?
Prerequisites
- Moonlight streaming client
- Moonlight is client allowing you to connect to your instance and play your games
- Either your own server with an NVIDIA GPU or a Cloud provider:
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Paperspace
- Scaleway
- Docker client
- Rootless Docker is not supported yet
- For MacOS, OrbStack is recommended over Docker Desktop
Installation
Install latest version of cloudypad
CLI:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PierreBeucher/cloudypad/master/install.sh | bash
➡️ See Installation page for more installation methods on Linux, Mac and Windows.
Choose your Provider
Choose a provider:
- SSH - Deploy on your own server or machine directly via SSH
- AWS - Create an instance directly on AWS
- Azure - Create an instance directly on Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud - Create an instance directly on Google Cloud
- Scaleway - Create an instance directly on Scaleway
- Paperspace - Create an instance directly on Paperspace
➡️ Check out per-Cloud provider setup specificities.
Deploy your instance
Create your instance with cloudypad
CLI:
cloudypad create
# How shall we name your Cloudy Pad instance? (default: mypad)
#
# Creating Cloudy Pad instance 'mypad'
#
# [...]
#
# 🥳 Your Cloudy Pad instance is ready !
Cloudy Pad will do everything for you automatically:
- Prompt for important information (you can also pass CLI args)
- Provision and configure your instance
- Install GPU drivers and streaming server (Wolf or Sunshine)
- Help you pair with Moonlight streaming client
Once the installation is complete, run Moonlight, connect and start playing ! 🎮
➡️ Moonlight usage and optimization guide
Stop your instance after gaming sessions
Once you are done, remember to stop your instance to avoid unnecessary costs 💸
cloudypad stop mypad
# or
# cloudypad destroy mypad
Problem ?
😱 Something went wrong? See Help and Troubleshooting section on the left, FAQ and known issues or create an issue