Good idea, Jeff.

I'm slowly catching up on email after being out most of 3 weeks!

I see that your PR also adds an 'install-wildfly' script, presumably for analogous use via curl.

I wanted to call attention to that on this thread as people reading this may not want to look at the PR and won't be aware.

That script works by downloading the latest tar from GitHub and unzipping it.

We're generally trying to push people away from focusing on the zips/tars and toward using Galleon-tools. But personally I think this is ok, and in the future there's nothing to stop us changing the script to have it instead find/install a tool and provision locally.

- Brian

On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM Jean-Frederic Mesnil via wildfly-dev <wildfly-dev@lists.jboss.org> wrote:

Hi,

I’m working on using Glow to build a container image that would provision a WildFly server

based on the deployments that are ADDed to the Containerfile.

To do so, I need to install Glow from my Containerfile. The instructions are not complex[1] but we can

improve the user experience by automating it.

This would improve the usage of Glow by making it very easy to install.

We could have the standard usage of curl-ing a shell script that would do the actual work. All we need is a good

place to host that script.

I was thinking of using wildfly.org to host this script.

The installation process would simply be:

```

$ curl -s https://wildfly.org/sh/install-glow | sh

```

And WildFly Glow is installed from the local directory and ready to be used.

By default, the latest version is installed. Otherwise, you can use the GLOW_VERSION env var to use another version.

I did this on my fork of wildfly.org:

```

$ curl -s https://jmesnil.github.io/wildfly.org/sh/install-glow  | sh

🔍 Fetching latest release from GitHub...

⬇️ Downloading: https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-glow/releases/download/1.5.0.Final/wildfly-glow-1.5.0.Final.zip

📦 Extracting WildFly Glow...

🚀 Installing to /Users/jmesnil/tmp/wildfly-glow

💡 To install shell command completion, you can run:

      source <(./wildfly-glow/wildfly-glow completion)

✅ Installation of WildFly Glow 1.5.0.Final complete!

```

I’ve opened a PR for it at https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly.org/pull/838. 

Don’t hesitate to give your feedback and comments in the PR.

Once we have done that for WildFly Glow, I’m planning to do something similar with Prospero.

Jeff

[1] https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-glow?tab=readme-ov-file#using-the-wildfly-glow-cli

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