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Nextcloud Deployment

This page documents the first working deployment of Nextcloud on the Raspberry Pi after base installation and SSD boot setup.

📅 Day 2 Progress — Nextcloud First Deployment

✅ Completed today

  • Installed snapd
  • Installed Nextcloud via Snap
  • Verified the Pi's local network address
  • Opened the first-run Nextcloud setup page in browser
  • Created the admin account and reached the Nextcloud dashboard

🔗 Resource used today:

1️⃣ Install snapd

Nextcloud on Raspberry Pi OS was installed via Snap, so snapd was installed first:

sudo apt install snapd -y

Terminal with the sudo apt install snapd command prepared

apt output installing snapd and required dependencies

2️⃣ Install Nextcloud via Snap

sudo snap install nextcloud

Terminal showing the sudo snap install nextcloud command

The install completed successfully (Nextcloud 34.0.2snap2 in this run).

3️⃣ Find the Pi address on the local network

To access the setup page from a browser:

ifconfig

If ifconfig is not available on your system, use:

ip addr

Terminal output showing network interfaces with IP details redacted

🔒 Privacy note

Keep local/global IP addresses redacted in screenshots before publishing.

4️⃣ Complete first-run setup in browser

Open:

http://<pi-local-ip>

This loads the initial Nextcloud setup page where you create the administrator account.

Nextcloud first-run setup page with URL/IP redacted

After submitting the form, Nextcloud completes initialization and opens the dashboard:

Nextcloud dashboard after successful first deployment

✅ Result: a working self-hosted Nextcloud instance on the Raspberry Pi, reachable on the local network.