Initial Setup

Hardware

We recommend the following hardware specifications:

  • 16G RAM
  • 4vCPUs
  • 500GB Disk space

Setup Instructions

We recommend using Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04. The following setup instructions are assuming you are using one of these images and the setup may be different if not.

Install Dependencies

Update packages:

sudo apt update

Install tools:

sudo apt install git build-essential wget jq -y

Install Go

Download Go:

wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.19.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Verify data integrity:

sha256sum go1.19.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Verify SHA-256 hash:

9df122d6baf6f2275270306b92af3b09d7973fb1259257e284dba33c0db14f1b

Unpack Go download:

sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.19.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Set up environment:

echo '
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$GOBIN' >> ~/.profile

Source profile file:

. ~/.profile