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Getting Started

Ubuntu LTS is the operating system in which CIF is developed against and is the most commonly used. RHEL and CentOS are a derivative is the second most common platform used by the community, but lags in community support. If you run into a problem, be sure to first checkout:

• Known Issues
• FAQ

and as always, contributions welcome!.

Changes from v1

• bin/cif is now provided by the SDK's which needs to be installed separately

Guides

• (stable) Ubuntu 12/14 LTS

Small Instance

• an x86-64bit platform (vm or bare-metal)
• at-least 8GB ram
• at-least 8 cores
• at-least 100GB of free (after OS install) disk space

Large Instance

• an x86-64bit platform (bare-metal)
• at-least 32GB ram
• at-least 32 cores
• at-least 500GB of free (after OS install) disk space
• RAID + LVM knowledge

Fine Print

bleeding-edge style distro's (eg: release cycles less than 18-24months, Fedora, normal ubuntu, etc...) are highly discouraged and are generally not supported