Prepare your local development environment

This section covers the essential documentation for setting up an efficient local work environment in a concise, direct way. The topics we will review in detail are:

• Day One Installation
  • Container engine installation
    • Colima
    • Podman
    • Minikube
  • Kubectl installation
  • Git installation
  • Google Cloud SDK installation
• Code Editors
  • Visual Studio Code installation
  • Cursor installation
  • IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition installation
• AI usage
  • mcp-andes installation — Cursor and MCP-enabled editors
• Codeen configuration — Cosmos GenAI Gateway proxy (official quickstart)
• Programming Languages
  • OpenJDK 11 installation
    • Gradle installation and configuration
  • Node.js installation
• Databases
  • PostgreSQL installation
  • Liquibase installation
• Configure SonarLint

This overview provides the guidelines needed to achieve an optimized local development environment.