Tutorial: How to Install Nebula on Windows 10

Nebula is a scalable overlay networking tool that lets you connect computers together, no matter where they are. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps of installing Nebula on Windows 10.

Prerequisites

Before starting the installation process, you need to ensure that your Windows 10 system meets the following prerequisites:

• Have an internet connection.
• Have administrative rights on your system.
• Have a working installation of Go (version 1.12 or higher) on your system. If you don’t have Go installed, please download and install it from the official Go website.

Steps to Install Nebula on Windows 10

Follow these steps to install Nebula on Windows 10:

1. Download the Nebula ZIP file from the official Nebula GitHub repository by clicking on the latest release version.
2. Extract the ZIP file to a directory that you want to run Nebula from (for example, C:\Program Files\Nebula).
3. Open the cmd command prompt on your Windows 10 system by pressing the Windows key + R and typing cmd in the Run dialogue box.
4. Navigate to the directory where you extracted the Nebula files using the cd command (e.g. cd C:\Program Files\Nebula).
5. Run the following command to build the Nebula binary:

go build -v -o nebula.exe ./cmd/nebula

6. Once the build process is complete, the Nebula binary file will be created in the same directory.
7. To test that Nebula is working, run the following command in the cmd command prompt:

nebula --version

8. If the installation was successful, you should see the version number of Nebula displayed in the command prompt.
9. To configure Nebula, you need to create a configuration file named config.yml. There are a number of configuration options available, which are covered in the Nebula documentation.
10. Once you have created your configuration file, you can start Nebula by running the following command in the cmd command prompt:

nebula -config config.yml

That’s it! You have successfully installed Nebula on your Windows 10 system. You can now use Nebula to create an overlay network between multiple computers, no matter where they are.

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