Before we start building and configuring our engineers server Let's very quickly see what these lessons
were look like and how I'll be demonstrating.
First off we're going to need a suitable host machine.
We don't need anything fancy.
And for demonstration purposes I'll be using the smallest server or droplet available on digital ocean
digital ocean just being a well-established and cost effective provider of virtual machines.
That also makes it easy to rebuild a machine via the user interface which I'll need to do at least once
during this course.
Feel free though to use any other shootable Linux based machine I've already created my server which
as you can see is a single core server with 1 gig of memory which will be plenty for running a modest
engine ex web server.
Linux is of course going to be the go to operating system and whilst I've opted for the very latest
version of a boon to version 17 this course will also apply to most other popular Linux distributions.
Following along on a one to will simplify at very least your installation steps.
But that should be the only noticeable difference.
I have opted for a boon too as it's the most popular distribution for any generics with arguably the
most available support and online resources.
But I'll also be covering the latest version of St arse in the installation section as it's a very close
favourite to urban too.
OK with my server ready.
I'll connect to it over SS H.
Copy this IP address.
SS H route.
At least that I be continue connecting.
Yes and there we are.
This is going to be where 90 percent of this course will take place.
For the sake of simplicity I'll be working as root during this course which whilst boulding and configuring
our engine servers fine and even helpful should not be the case once you're all set up and ready to
bring your server to production.
Just something to keep in mind.
Then once we start editing the engine configuration files I'll be using a basic text editor to remotely
edit the files over S S H.
Again feel free to edit your configuration files.
Which ever way you prefer.
I've linked to a few good ESIs edge clients in the list and resources.
Should you prefer to also edit your files locally instead of directly on the server.
Also don't forget to check the lesson resources throughout the course where I'll be linking configuration
files documentation etc..
Now that we in the terminal and connect it to our server we can finally install engine X which will
see how to do via a package manager in the next lesson.