Setup your environment
Mac and Linux users
Docker
You can download Docker for Linux and Mac OS here. Please note that you will have to create a free DockerHub account before you can download Docker.
Windows users
We currently support Windows 10 64-bit: Pro, Enterprise, or Education (Build 15063 or later).
Powershell
In order to succesfully execute all commands in this guide make sure you are using PowerShell in administrator mode and not the Command prompt. To launch PowerShell in administrator mode, type PowerShell in the searchfield of the taskbar, you should find Windows PowerShell, right click on it and select Run as Administrator.
Docker
You can download Docker for Windows here. Please note that you will have to create a free DockerHub account before you can download Docker. Docker requires hyper-V to be enabled and Docker will ask you to enable it on start-up if this does not happen you can enable it yourself by running following command in PowerShell
You can also download Docker directly here.
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All
OpenSSL
You will need OpenSSL to create the TLS certificates you will need to run NLX. We advise you to install Chocolatey, a package manager for Windows which will install OpenSSL for you.
Once you installed Chocolatey you can install OpenSSL by running
choco install openssl.light
Now close and reopen PowerShell and verify your OpenSSL installation by running
openssl version
if the installation was succesful OpenSSL should print its version number.
Working directory
You can use any directory you want. Just make sure to update the example commands of all future commands accordingly.
First, let's navigate to our home directory.
cd ~
Now, let's create the nlx-setup directory.
mkdir nlx-setup
cd nlx-setup
You can verify your current location by running
pwd
The output should be:
- For Mac & Windows:
/Users/<your-username>/nlx-setup - For Linux:
/home/<your-username>/nlx-setup
All commands later in this guide assume you are located in this directory.