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Every way to get Bowire. Pick what fits your workflow.

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Install from a package manager

The fastest path for most developers — NuGet for embedded integrations, the .NET global tool for a standalone CLI, or your platform’s native package manager.

NuGet packages

Every plugin ships as a standalone NuGet package so you install only what you need. All published by Küstenlogik on nuget.org. Plugins follow their own release cadence — see the plugin compatibility matrix for which plugin version goes with which Bowire host.

Need them all at once? Grab bowire-nugets.zip — every official Küstenlogik NuGet for this release in a single archive. Useful for air-gapped CI, offline installs, or seeding an internal feed.

Core

Protocol plugins

Third-party plugins

Bowire’s protocol system is open — anyone can ship a plugin against the IBowireProtocol interface and publish it to NuGet. Packages tagged bowire-plugin show up in the discovery feed below. These are community-maintained, not official Küstenlogik releases — audit the source before running them in production.

Browse community plugins on NuGet

Want to build one? See the custom protocol guide for the plugin lifecycle and discovery contract.

.NET global tool — standalone CLI + UI

Install once, point at any running server. No code changes to your host app.

$ dotnet tool install -g Kuestenlogik.Bowire.Tool
$ bowire --url https://your-server

Windows package managers Planned

Install the standalone tool through the package manager you already use — no .NET tool chain on the host required.

winget

$ winget install Kuestenlogik.Bowire

Submitted to the microsoft/winget-pkgs repository — the install command becomes available once Microsoft’s reviewers merge PR #377237. Until then, grab the MSI or the .NET tool below.

Chocolatey

$ choco install bowire

Awaiting approval from the Chocolatey community moderators. Bowire is a young package, so every version gets human-reviewed before it goes live. Use the MSI or the .NET tool below in the meantime.

Native installers and portable bundles

Platform-native installers, xcopy-style self-contained bundles, or tagged releases from GitHub — whichever fits how you ship software.

Native installers

MSI for Windows, DEB for Debian / Ubuntu, RPM for Fedora / RHEL / SUSE. For shops that prefer a platform-native install path over the .NET tool chain. Unsigned for now — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper may prompt on first run.

Self-contained / portable

Zip or tarball per platform with the .NET runtime bundled. Extract, run the bowire binary — no SDK, no installer, no registry entries, no system changes. Perfect for air-gapped networks, USB-stick installs, ephemeral CI runners, or anywhere you want an xcopy deployment.

GitHub Releases

Every tagged release is published with changelog, source archive, and all the self-contained bundles listed above. For air-gapped installs, reproducible builds, or when you want to compare release notes.

Browse all releases on GitHub

Sidecar containers

Drop Bowire next to a non-.NET service as a sidecar — no .NET runtime on the host, one manifest to deploy.

Docker / container

Multi-arch OCI image (linux/amd64 + linux/arm64) published on every tagged release. Drop it next to a non-.NET service as a sidecar — no .NET runtime on the host, one docker run to deploy.

  • GitHub Container Registry

    ghcr.io/kuestenlogik/bowire:latest

    Primary registry. No login required for pulls, no rate limits for public packages, ties straight back to the source repo.

  • Docker Hub

    Mirror on Docker Hub. Identical image content, same tags. Useful when your tooling defaults to the Docker Hub namespace or your registry mirror only sees docker.io.

Available tags: latest (newest stable), <version> (e.g. 1.0.12) for pinning. Multi-arch manifest list — docker picks the right architecture automatically. 

docker run --rm -p 5080:5080 \
  kuestenlogik/bowire:latest \
  --url https://api.example.com

Then open http://localhost:5080 in your browser. See the container setup docs for plugin-volume mounts, MCP-adapter mode, and embedded-mode integration in your own image.

Build from source

Clone the repo, audit the code, fork it, embed it in commercial products.

Source code

Every protocol plugin, the host integration, the CLI — all published on GitHub. Apache 2.0, no strings attached.

Clone on GitHub

Documentation

The complete Bowire documentation, packaged for offline reading — a standalone HTML snapshot you can unzip anywhere and a single-file PDF for printing or archiving. Both are built from the same source as the online docs.

Standalone HTML offline-ready

Unzip, open index.html, browse offline. Same layout as the online docs, minus the marketing site chrome so every outbound link stays self-contained.

Download bowire-docs.zip

PDF single file

Every article in one PDF. Useful for printing, archiving a specific version, or searching the whole reference inside a single reader.

Download bowire-docs.pdf

Older versions are pinned on each tagged release — see github.com/Kuestenlogik/Bowire/releases for bowire-docs-<version>.{zip,pdf} artifacts.