Step-by-Step Installation¶
The goal of this guide is to show you how to manually set up your own instance of the n6 system, so that you can learn – by installing, configuring, running and experimenting with the stuff – what the basic building blocks of n6 are and how they interact with each other and with the outside world.
Note
If you are in a hurry, you may want to try the Docker-Based Installation guide instead.
Disclaimer: what these materials are and what they are not
This installation guide, as well as the stuff you can find in the
etc/ directory
of the n6 source code repository, concern setting up an n6 instance
just for testing, exploration and experimentation, i.e., not for
production (at least, not without careful security-focused
adjustments).
In other words, these materials are not intended to be used as a
recipe for a secure production setup – in particular, when it comes to
(but not limited to) such subjects as X.509 certificates (note that those
in the etc/ssl/*
directories of the source code repository are purely example ones –
they should never be used for anything related to production
systems!), authentication and authorization settings (which in these
materials are, generally, either skipped or reduced to what is necessary
just to run the stuff), or file access permissions.
It should be obvious that an experienced system administrator or security expert should prepare and/or carefully review and adjust any configuration/installation/deployment of services that are to be made production ones, in particular if those services are to be made public.