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Setting up your development environment

Setting up your development environment - OpenTelemetry Tutorial

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Setting up your development environment

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- [Instructor] This video covers how to get all the tools you need to follow this course. Please follow it closely and all the way through. First of all, I'm going to use Visual Studio Code as my IDE. I have the website open right here and you can download it from there. Next, we will also need node.js, so go to nodejs.org. And there install the latest LTS for long-term support version. Then we will also need Python 3.0. How to install it differs depending on your platform. For Mac, I'm using Homebrew, and for Windows there's also an installer available. We will also need Docker to run a few containers. You can install it following the instructions for your platform on the Docker website. Once you have installed Docker, you can already install the first container and this container is for MongoDB. MongoDB is a document database that we will be using throughout this course. For that I'm heading into my terminal. And on the terminal, I'm now typing docker run -d, for detach, -p for…

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