6.1.1. Local System Requirements

Development Experience

Requirements for application development.

Required

• Visual Studio Code (minimum 1 year)
• Linux command line (minimum 1 year)
• Docker (minimum 1 year)
• git (minimum 1 year)
• Go programming language (preferably minimum 1 year)

DevOps Experience

Requirements for application deployment and operations.

Required

• AWS EKS or Azure AKS experience (1 year recommended)
• IAM experience (service account provisioning)
• terraform (v1.4+)
• ansible (v2+)
• helm (v3+)

Hardware Requirements

• 4GB RAM or greater
• 20GB storage or greater
• amd64/x86_64 processor architecture (Intel, AMD Ryzen, etc)

Operating System Requirements

MacOS, Linux, and Windows development is supported on the following versions:

• Mac 10.15 Catalina or greater (recommended)
• Linux Kernel 5.4 (Ubuntu 20.04 or greater)
• Windows 10 via Ubuntu Virtual Machine (VMWare 16.1.2 or greater)

Software Requirements

• Docker version 20.10.6 or greater
  • IMPORTANT: Your user must have permissions to run docker. See instructions here on Linux.
• docker-compose 1.29.1 or greater
• Golang version 1.16.4 or greater
  • See install instructions here for specific releases:
• jq version 1.6 or greater
• git version 2.20.0 or greater
  • Already installed on Mac and Linux.
• gcc
  • Already installed on Mac
• zip
  • Already installed on Mac
• Make version 3.81 or greater
  • Already installed on Mac
• wget version 1.21.0 or greater
  • Already installed on Mac