Set Up Developer Environment
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As a developer you have two options on how to set up your developer environment to start contributing to the Edge Orchestrator:

#. :doc:`/developer_guide/set_up_dev_env/dev_env_onprem` to use on on-prem Virtual Machine
   that runs the Edge Orchestrator. The VM is provided via libvirt and setup is fully automated
   with Terraform. Choose this option if:

   * You want to have the exact mirror of the Edge Orchestrator.

   * You want to develop and/or test OS provisioning with :doc:`/developer_guide/virtual_edge_node/index`.
     The on-prem VM is fully compatible with Virtual Edge Node.

   * You have a powerful-enough machine and resources are not scarce.

#. :doc:`/developer_guide/set_up_dev_env/dev_env_kind` to deploy a test instance of the Edge Orchestrator
   on the KinD cluster. Choose this option if:

    * You do not need to develop/or test OS provisioning. KinD does not emulate full OS provisioning and is intended
       to perform basic sanity tests on already provisioned Edge Nodes (such as Edge Node statuses and some Day1/Day2 operations).

   * You have limited resources.

   * You don't need to be consistent with the Continuous Integration environments.

.. toctree::
   :hidden:

   dev_env_onprem
   dev_env_kind