The following are instructions for building all components in the constellation repository, except for images. A manual on how to build images locally can be found in the [image README](/image/README.md).
Prerequisites:
* 20 GB disk space
* [Go 1.18](https://go.dev/doc/install). Can be installed with these commands:
* [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/). Can be installed with these commands on Ubuntu 22.04: `sudo apt update && sudo apt install docker.io`. As the build spawns docker containers your user account either needs to be in the `docker` group (Add with `sudo usermod -a -G docker $USER`) or you have to run builds with `sudo`. When using `sudo` remember that your root user might (depending on your distro and local config) not have the go binary in it's PATH. The current PATH can be forwarded to the root env with `sudo env PATH=$PATH <cmd>`.
Some of the tests rely on libvirt and won't work if you don't have a virtualization capable CPU. You can find instructions on setting up libvirt in our [QEMU README](qemu.md).
> :warning: Debug images are not safe to use in production environments. :warning:
The debug images will open an additional **unsecured** port (4000) which accepts any binary to be run on the target machine. **Make sure that those machines are not exposed to the internet.**
To familiarize yourself with debugd and learn how to deploy a cluster using it, read [this](/debugd/README.md) manual.
If you want to deploy a cluster for production, please refer to our user documentation [here](https://docs.edgeless.systems/constellation/getting-started/first-steps#create-a-cluster).
In order to verify your cluster we describe a [verification workflow](https://docs.edgeless.systems/constellation/workflows/verify-cluster) in our official docs.
Apart from that you can also reproduce some of the measurements described in the [docs](https://docs.edgeless.systems/constellation/architecture/attestation#runtime-measurements) locally.