#Installation

This page covers a full production installation of Cascade — including security hardening, firewall configuration, and high-availability considerations.

#System requirements

#Node servers (Cascadia)

#Panel

The Cascade panel is always provisioned and managed by Aftora — there is nothing to install on your end. Once your account is active, Aftora provides you with your panel URL and credentials.

#Cascadia daemon installation

#Quick install

curl -fsSL https://install.cascadia.aftora.io | bash

#Manual install

If you prefer to inspect the installer before running it:

# Download and inspect
curl -fsSL https://install.cascadia.aftora.io -o install-cascadia.sh
less install-cascadia.sh

# Run when satisfied
bash install-cascadia.sh

#What the installer does

1. Detects your OS and installs system packages (curl, jq, util-linux)
2. Downloads the latest cascadiad binary to /usr/local/bin/cascadiad
3. Creates the system user cascadia
4. Writes the systemd unit to /etc/systemd/system/cascadia.service
5. Enables and starts the service
6. Prints your node registration token

#Verifying the installation

# Check daemon status
systemctl status cascadia

# View live logs
journalctl -u cascadia -f

# Check daemon version
cascadiad --version

#Firewall configuration

Cascadia communicates outbound over HTTPS (port 443) to the Aftora edge network. No inbound ports need to be opened for the daemon itself.

Workload-specific ports (e.g. game server ports, web ports) are managed per-workload in the panel.

# Example: allow game server port range (adjust to your needs)
ufw allow 25565:25600/tcp  # Minecraft
ufw allow 25565:25600/udp

#Updating Cascadia

# Pull the latest daemon binary
cascadiad update

# Or via the panel: Infrastructure → Nodes → [node] → Update Daemon

#Uninstalling

# Stop and disable the service
systemctl stop cascadia
systemctl disable cascadia

# Remove files
rm /usr/local/bin/cascadiad
rm /etc/systemd/system/cascadia.service
systemctl daemon-reload