Official releases are built using Docker containers. To build Milvus using Docker please follow [these instructions](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/blob/master/build/README.md).
## Building Milvus on a local OS/shell environment
The details below outline the hardware and software requirements for building on Linux.
### Hardware Requirements
Milvus is written in Go and C++, compiling it can use a lot of resources. We recommend the following for any physical or virtual machine being used for building Milvus.
```
- 8GB of RAM
- 50GB of free disk space
```
### Installing Required Software
In fact, all Linux distributions is available to develop Milvus. The following only contains commands on Ubuntu, because we mainly use it. If you develop Milvus on other distributions, you are welcome to improve this document.
The algorithm library of Milvus, Knowhere is written in c++. CMake is required in the Milvus compilation. If you don't have it, please follow the instructions in the [Installing CMake](https://cmake.org/install/).
Milvus is written in [Go](http://golang.org/). If you don't have a Go development environment, please follow the instructions in the [Go Getting Started guide](https://golang.org/doc/install).
Confirm that your `GOPATH` and `GOBIN` environment variables are correctly set as detailed in [How to Write Go Code](https://golang.org/doc/code.html) before proceeding.
Milvus depends on Etcd, Pulsar and minIO. Using Docker Compose to manage these is an easy way in a local development. To install Docker and Docker Compose in your development environment, follow the instructions from the Docker website below:
If this command succeed, you will now have an executable at `bin/milvus` off of your Milvus project directory.
## A Quick Start for Testing Milvus
### Presubmission Verification
Presubmission verification provides a battery of checks and tests to give your pull request the best chance of being accepted. Developers need to run as many verification tests as possible locally.
To run all presubmission verification tests, use this command: