# Community Feedback Request - ziti edge quickstart
**URL:** https://openziti.discourse.group/t/community-feedback-request-ziti-edge-quickstart/1678
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [October 1, 2023, 12:58am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/community-feedback-request-ziti-edge-quickstart/1678 "2023-10-01T00:58:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@TheLumberjack](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/TheLumberjack)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2023, 12:58am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/community-feedback-request-ziti-edge-quickstart/1678/1 "2023-10-01T00:58:37Z")
Hi All,
[OpenZiti v0.30.4](https://github.com/openziti/ziti/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#release-0304) has been released containing a new feature and we are looking for community feedback.
The feature is `ziti edge quickstart`. This command is intended to be used for short-lived networks, suitable for unit testing, playing around locally while learning OpenZiti or who knows! You tell us how you'll use it! Run `ziti edge quickstart --help` to explore the command.
What do you think? What features would you like to see added to it?
Here's a short demonstration video for those interested:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZr1prAic1E)
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### Author:  [@markamind](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/markamind)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2023, 7:57am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/community-feedback-request-ziti-edge-quickstart/1678/2 "2023-10-01T07:57:37Z")
Very cool. It will greatly reduce the effort to organise a demo. Awesome.
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### Author:  [@carljmosca](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/carljmosca)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2023, 3:02pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/community-feedback-request-ziti-edge-quickstart/1678/3 "2023-10-01T15:02:14Z")
This appears to support PowerShell on Windows AMD64 at this time. Are there plans to support macOS Apple silicon?
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### Author:  [@TheLumberjack](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/TheLumberjack)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2023, 3:04pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/community-feedback-request-ziti-edge-quickstart/1678/4 "2023-10-01T15:04:32Z")
It's funny you should ask that. I ended up giving it a try last night and realized it just blindly downloads the windows version cause... Powershell == Windows right??? 🙂
I do plan try it out on linux/macos when I can find the time to. FWIW you don't need to wait for powershell support though.
```auto
source /dev/stdin <<< "$(wget -qO- https://get.openziti.io/quick/ziti-cli-functions.sh)"; getZiti "yes"
```
should be the one-liner to get the latest version of ziti on your machine (until we add brew support, which we'll do at some point i am sure)
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### Author:  [@carljmosca](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/carljmosca)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/community-feedback-request-ziti-edge-quickstart/1678/5 "2023-10-01T15:20:10Z")
LOL...I actually do have powershell installed on my M1 MacBook (but I can't recall why). I did try to install the powershell version and I ran into what you described.
I had assumed there was some powershell-only magic in the latest release.
This looks really cool, will give it a try.
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### Author:  [@CorpseGrinder](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/CorpseGrinder)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2023, 5:42pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/community-feedback-request-ziti-edge-quickstart/1678/6 "2023-10-01T17:42:14Z")
Fantastic. My main use for it now will be for setting up quickly on site or testing on prem. As previously, I was using a snap shot system on a VM for this exact purpose!
In the future when I get it know OpenZiti more intimately. It would make a great training aid for the cli with trainee staff.
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### Author:  [@scareything](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/scareything)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2023, 11:04pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/community-feedback-request-ziti-edge-quickstart/1678/7 "2023-10-01T23:04:04Z")
FWIW I installed powershell via homebrew because vcpkg was having a fit about it.
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### Author:  [@carljmosca](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/carljmosca)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 12:03am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/community-feedback-request-ziti-edge-quickstart/1678/8 "2023-10-02T00:03:20Z")
I ran this on a newly created Debian VM. I had not installed jq and I got a message indicating that the bin dir was not set: \* ERROR: ZITI\_BIN\_DIR is not set (but I think this might be a warning because the default dir was used).
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### Author:  [@TheLumberjack](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/TheLumberjack)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 12:04am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/community-feedback-request-ziti-edge-quickstart/1678/9 "2023-10-02T00:04:41Z")
oh so it didn't check for pre-requisites? it should definitely do that. i'll try it on a docker image and file a bug:
issue filed : [getZiti fails when pre-req's are not met · Issue #1375 · openziti/ziti · GitHub](https://github.com/openziti/ziti/issues/1375)
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### Author:  [@carljmosca](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/carljmosca)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 12:13am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/community-feedback-request-ziti-edge-quickstart/1678/10 "2023-10-02T00:13:36Z")
```auto
source /dev/stdin <<< "$(wget -qO- https://get.openziti.io/quick/ziti-cli-functions.sh)"; getZiti "yes"
* ERROR: ZITI_BIN_DIR is not set
ZITI_HOME overridden: /home/username/.ziti/quickstart/zt01
-bash: jq: command not found
-bash: jq: command not found
The path for ziti binaries has not been set, use the default (/home/username/.ziti/quickstart/zt01/ziti-bin/ziti-)? (Y/n) y
INFO: using the default path /home/username/.ziti/quickstart/zt01/ziti-bin/ziti-
Getting OpenZiti binaries
```
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### Author:  [@TheLumberjack](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/TheLumberjack)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 2:20am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/community-feedback-request-ziti-edge-quickstart/1678/11 "2023-10-02T02:20:24Z")
Alright @carljmosca ... I have PR up to fix `getZiti.ps1` for those of us crazy enough to run and try powershell on non-windows OS'es... If you want to try the preview, run:
```auto
iex(iwr https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openziti/ziti/8e4d7d985e2bf4882db1275e69df90a5d9a9f256/quickstart/docker/image/getZiti.ps1)
```
I tried it on macos arm, linux and windows so hopefully it'll work for everyone so inclined to try it.
Windows - Linux - MacOs:
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### Author:  [@carljmosca](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/carljmosca)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 10:26am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/community-feedback-request-ziti-edge-quickstart/1678/12 "2023-10-02T10:26:36Z")
Awesome!! Yes, it works nicely on macOS (M1 hardware). Will make some time to play around with it a bit more. Thank you @TheLumberjack