CrabNebula Cloud

CrabNebula Cloud is a way to distribute apps across multiple platforms and architectures all from one unified platform. Using the power of our Rust-powered CLI, you can automate uploading and releasing your app from your CI pipeline of choice or directly from your computer.

Getting Started

CrabNebula Cloud is comprised up of two components:

• Cloud Platform: Manage all of your organizations, apps, and releases from a centralized web app.
• Command Line Interface (CLI): A tool to automate uploading and releasing your app binary. Download it from our CDN.

To begin using CrabNebula Cloud go to http://crabnebula.cloud/. There you can use your GitHub account to sign up for the platform.

The next step will be to create an organization.

Set up an Organization

Application, billing, members, and organization-specific settings are managed at the organization level. Organizations allow a user to collaborate in multiple organizations and for apps to be shared with multiple users.

When you first create an account you will be asked to create a new organization with the following information:

• Organization’s name: The public name of the organization apps belong to
• Organization’s slug: A unique identifier for the organization

Note

At this time you cannot delete or modify an organization’s name.

Once you have created the organization, you will be asked to enter your billing information and sign up for a subscription before you can start using our services. Details on how to do this can be found in the Billing section.

Afterwards you will be able invite other users to join the organization. For more information on how to do this, see Invite a Member.

Create an Application

An application represents a single app distributed to users. A single application can support multiple platforms and architectures.

• Name: A human-readable name for the application. This is shown on the application’s market page.
• Slug: An identifier for your application.
• Visibility: If an application is “Public” then a market page is created where end users are able to download the application.
• Description (optional): A description that is shown on the application’s market page.
• Application Type: Allows you to specify the type of application you are creating.
  • Tauri (v1): A first generation Tauri app.
  • Tauri (v2): A still in beta, second generation Tauri app.
  • Packager: An app that is packaged with cargo-packager.
  • Other: Any generic app/asset.

Looking for Multiple Environments?

If you would like different environments or distribution channels for your application (such as separate beta and release channels), you can use the --draft option when drafting a release or a separate application to represent each of those environments.

After creating an application, you will be able to manage the application from the dedicated Application Overview page.

Create an API Key

An API key is used to authenticate to the Cloud Platform when using the CLI. To create an API key:

1. Open “Settings” in the Cloud Platform.
2. Select “New API key”.
3. Give the key a name, an expiration, and select the scope. A “Read, write” scope is required for creating drafts, uploading assets, and publishing releases from the CrabNebula Cloud CLI.

Create a Release

Creating a release is done with the CrabNebula Cloud CLI. After building an app locally or in a CI environment, follow these steps to create, upload, publish and finally fetch said release of the app:

1. Create a Release Draft
2. Upload Assets
3. Publish a Release
4. Fetch Latest Release