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+# Prerequisites
+
+Basic understanding of logging in to a systems console, and root access are
+both necessariy for installation
+
+## Docker & Docker-Compose
+
+The default deployment model uses Docker and Docker Compose to deploy
+containers for the project's tools, and so, require the following:
+
+* Docker >= 1.13.1
+* Docker Compose >= 1.15.0
+
+```
+$ sudo apt install docker docker-compose
+$ sudo systemctl enable docker
+$ sudo systemctl start docker
+```
+## Quickstart Repository
+
+For the quickstart tutorial, you'll need to install a git client, and check out with repository:
+
+```
+$ sudo apt install git
+$ git clone https://github.com/CommunityHoneyNetwork/chn-quickstart.git
+```