Nextcloud VM

Server installation. Simplified. ☁️

Interactive Guidance

The Nextcloud VM — (aka Nextcloud Virtual Machine or NcVM) — helps you create a personal or corporate Nextcloud Server faster and easier. Fundamentally, NcVM is a carefully crafted family of *nix scripts which interactively guide you through a quality-controlled installation to obtain an A+ security-rated Nextcloud instance.

Curated Extras

The Nextcloud app store extends core features by allowing you to enable a multitude of free one-click apps. However, integration apps there like Collabora Online and ONLYOFFICE are solely bridges to Nextcloud. You’re still required to install those services separately, which can be complex. NcVM provides optional full installation of select curated apps, including those and others. Monitor and manage your cloud using any web browser with NcVM’s hand-picked collection of power utilities featuring stunning, modern UIs.

All Systems Go

NcVM can check for and install stable updates to keep things current, smooth, and secure.

Support the development

• Create a PR and improve the code
• Report your issue
• Help us with existing issues
• Write scripts so that the release process becomes automated with Vagrant, Terraform or similar
• Donate or buy our pre-configured VMs: 500 GB, 1 TB, 2TB or Hyper-V.

Full documentation

• VM (the easiest option)
• Install with scripts (if you feel brave)
• FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
• Machine configuration (of the released version)

I want to test a Release Candidate (RC), or Beta!

No problem, brave explorer! We made it simple. Run update.sh but abort it before it starts so that you have the latest nextcloud_update.sh. Then put this in your nextcloud_update.sh below the curl command (lib.sh) but before the check for major versions and run it.

To test a specific RC version:

NCREPO="https://download.nextcloud.com/server/prereleases"
NCVERSION=12.0.1RC5
STABLEVERSION="nextcloud-$NCVERSION"

Or the latest Beta:

NCREPO="https://download.nextcloud.com/server/prereleases"
NCVERSION=$(curl -s -m 900 $NCREPO/ | sed --silent 's/.*href="nextcloud-\([^"]\+\).zip.asc".*/\1/p' | sort --version-sort | tail -1)
STABLEVERSION="nextcloud-$NCVERSION"

First look

The usual tags

Downloads from Github:

Build Status:

Stability Status:

Current maintainers

• Daniel Hanson @ T&M Hansson IT AB
• You? :)

Special thanks to

• Ezra Holm @ Tech and Me
• Luis Guzman @ SwITNet
• Stefan Heitmüller @ morph027's Blog
• Lorenzo Faleschini
• Georg Großmann