Get Started · Community Edition

Install Volt. Verify everything.

The Volt Platform Community edition is free, forever — the full workflow to build, sign, and run verifiable workloads on your own machine, with local offline ArmoredLedger signing and verification. One command gets you running.

Free forever

Community edition

The complete Volt workflow under our source-available license — free for individuals, education, and non-profits. No credit card, no trial clock.

Signed & verified

Local ArmoredLedger

Every artifact you build can be cryptographically signed and verified locally and offline — the same trust model that powers the paid hosted ledger.

3KB runtime

Runs anywhere

An ultra-light runtime that runs containers, VMs, and native workloads on Linux without bolting security on afterward.

Quick install

One command to install Volt

Paste this into a terminal on any 64-bit Linux machine. The script detects your architecture, verifies the download’s SHA-256 checksum, and installs the volt CLI.

bash
curl -fsSL https://armoredgate-dl.b-cdn.net/install.sh | sh

Prefer to inspect first? Read the script at armoredgate-dl.b-cdn.net/install.sh before piping it to a shell, or download a tarball directly below.

Direct downloads

Per-architecture tarballs

Grab a release tarball for your platform from the latest channel. Each archive ships with a SHA-256 checksum file you can verify before extracting.

Linux x86_64Intel / AMD 64-bit
Download
Linux arm64ARM 64-bit / Apple-silicon VMs
Download

Verify your download against its checksum: amd64 · arm64

First workload

From install to a verified run

Four steps to build, sign, and run your first workload with provenance you can prove.

Confirm the install

Check that the volt CLI is on your path and report its version.

volt version

Initialize a workspace

Create a project and a local signing identity. Keys stay on your machine — Community signing is fully local and offline.

volt init my-app cd my-app volt keys generate

Build and sign

Build your workload and sign the artifact. The signature and a provenance record are written to your local ArmoredLedger.

volt build volt sign ./dist # records provenance locally

Verify and run

Verify the signature before execution, then run it. Verification happens every time the workload starts.

volt verify ./dist volt run ./dist

That is the whole trust model: signed at build, proven in the ledger, verified at runtime — on your own machine, at no cost.

Ready for production?

Bring the ledger to your whole team

Community is free forever for local use. Pro and Enterprise add the hosted, managed ArmoredLedger, unlimited nodes, team features, SLAs, and Gov-Secure options — tamper-evident provenance you can prove to an auditor without operating the infrastructure yourself.