Hardware requirements

The minimal requirements for the host deploying the provided examples are as follows:

  • At least 2 CPU cores
  • At least 4 GB of memory
  • At least 20 GB of free disk space

With these specifications, you should be able to spin up the test environment without encountering any issues.

Regarding connectivity, the host machine should have internet access and the ability to resolve external DNS records. The provision scripts will have to download dependencies during their execution, though most of the dependencies will be cached locally to avoid being downloaded in every deployment.

The default network for the example environment is 192.168.42.0/24, and the following diagram illustrates the configuration you would get when running ...

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