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# How to install the Anbox Cloud Appliance

The Anbox Cloud Appliance provides a deployment of Anbox Cloud to a single machine. This offering is well suited for initial prototype and small scale deployments.

The guides in this section describe how to install the Anbox Cloud Appliance on different cloud and CI/CD platforms. There is a difference between the full Anbox Cloud installation and the Anbox Cloud Appliance (see {ref}`sec-variants`). This section focuses on the **Anbox Cloud Appliance**. For instructions on how to install **Anbox Cloud**, see {ref}`howto-install-anbox-cloud`.

We strongly recommend that you follow the {ref}`tut-installing-appliance` tutorial before you install the appliance on a cloud or CI/CD platform. The tutorial guides you through installing the appliance on a machine dedicated to Anbox Cloud and makes you familiar with the installation process and the general concepts of the Anbox Cloud Appliance.

Also, see {ref}`ref-requirements` before you start your installation.

The following additional guides provide you instructions on how to enable certain features of the Anbox Cloud Appliance:

```{toctree}
:titlesonly:

Enable support for custom identity provider <enable-oidc>
```

## Supported cloud platforms

The Anbox Cloud Appliance is currently available for the following cloud platforms:

* {ref}`howto-install-appliance-aws`

Other clouds are also supported, but the Anbox Cloud Appliance is not available from their application directories yet. Therefore, to install the appliance on such a cloud, install the Anbox Cloud Appliance snap on a cloud machine. See the following instructions:

* For [Azure](https://azure.microsoft.com/) : {ref}`howto-install-appliance-azure`
* For [Google Cloud](https://cloud.google.com/) : {ref}`howto-install-appliance-google-cloud`

## Supported CI/CD platforms

The Anbox Cloud Appliance is currently available on the following CI/CD platforms:

* {ref}`howto-install-appliance-github`

```{toctree}
:hidden:

Install on AWS <install-on-aws>
Install on Azure <install-on-azure>
Install on Google Cloud <install-on-google-cloud>
Install on GitHub <install-on-github>
```