System Requirements

Hardware

We recommend 16 GB of RAM when working with containerization / virtualization. You can certainly get by with 8 GB but you may want to keep other applications to a minimum. It is also dependant on the RAM configuration required if using virtualization. By default the DevTools Docker Host is configured to run with 4 GB of RAM.

Software

Mac

Homebrew is also required for package installation.

For Virtualization you can choose one of the following

• VirtualBox 5.0.20+ (the default supported option)
• VMWare Fusion
• Xhyve with Docker Machine Xhyve

Windows

VirtualBox is required.

Linux

Docker is required to be running as a system service.