# OpenBalena Server Setup on local machine

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/openbalena-server-setup-on-local-machine/4890>\
**Category:** openBalena\
**Created:** [January 4, 2019, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/openbalena-server-setup-on-local-machine/4890 "2019-01-04T09:48:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![pei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@pei](https://forums.balena.io/u/pei)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/openbalena-server-setup-on-local-machine/4890/1 "2019-01-04T09:48:18Z")

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Hello,

I followed the quickstart guide to setup openBalena server locally, after installing i.e step - ./scripts/compose up -d I saw everything running. I could see containers, but when I ran [https://localhost](https://localhost) I am not seeing ‘503 Service Unavailable’. I was expecting a login page to come up for the server, is it not the case ? or am I missing something ?

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**Author:** ![KingRial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KingRial](https://forums.balena.io/u/KingRial)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 11:11am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/openbalena-server-setup-on-local-machine/4890/3 "2019-01-04T11:11:39Z")

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I am pretty new too but, from the little I know, open balena doesn’t offer a web UI.  
You can handle it using [balena-CLI](https://www.balena.io/docs/reference/cli/) or building your own UI using [balena-sdk](https://github.com/balena-io/balena-sdk)

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**Author:** ![richbayliss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/richbayliss/32/1054_2.png) [@richbayliss](https://forums.balena.io/u/richbayliss)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/openbalena-server-setup-on-local-machine/4890/4 "2019-01-04T15:05:32Z")

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> [@KingRial](#):
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> I am pretty new too but, from the little I know, open balena doesn’t offer a web UI.

This is correct, there is no bundled UI with openBalena.

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**Author:** ![pei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@pei](https://forums.balena.io/u/pei)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/openbalena-server-setup-on-local-machine/4890/5 "2019-01-06T16:19:11Z")

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Thank you both for confirming. So, as suggested by @KingRial if one needs to have a UI then has to build using SDK, right ?

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**Author:** ![dansku](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/dansku/32/1183_2.png) [@dansku](https://forums.balena.io/u/dansku)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 10:11am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/openbalena-server-setup-on-local-machine/4890/6 "2019-01-07T10:11:06Z")

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@pei openBalena doesn’t have an user interface like balenaCloud.  
You can only manage it via command-line., but you can develop your own UI, which will need to interface the command-line to a graphic display of your choice.

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**Author:** ![richbayliss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/richbayliss/32/1054_2.png) [@richbayliss](https://forums.balena.io/u/richbayliss)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 11:56am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/openbalena-server-setup-on-local-machine/4890/7 "2019-01-07T11:56:16Z")

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You should use the SDK to build yourself a UI, that is correct.

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**Author:** ![pei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@pei](https://forums.balena.io/u/pei)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 6:54am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/openbalena-server-setup-on-local-machine/4890/8 "2019-01-08T06:54:15Z")

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Thank you @dansku and @richbayliss for confirming it.