Get Disco

Latest release

Follow the installation instructions after downloading the package.

Download the latest experimental development snapshot at GitHub.

Amazon EC2

For a few dollars you can rent a server or a cluster of servers at the Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). This is the easiest way to get started with Disco as you don't have to install anything manually.

Download the following script:

and follow the Installation instructions for Amazon's EC2.

Debian packages

If you use Debian or a Debian-based distribution such as Ubuntu, on the AMD64 architecture, you can just "apt-get install" Disco. Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

 deb http://discoproject.org/debian /

After running apt-get update, you can install the disco-master package to your master node. If you run Disco in a cluster, you should install the disco-node package to other nodes. The python-disco package is require on all machines where Disco scripts are run.

After installation, see steps 4-6 in Setting up Disco that describe how to configure and test Disco.

Our Debian packages are experimental! They may not play nicely with other packages or they may destroy your computer. They are best to be used in a secure, sandboxed environment where nodes can be re-installed automatically if needed. If unsure, try first the Amazon EC2 option above which is based on our Debian packages.