Chapter 1 Prerequisites

In order to use htsquirrel, you will need the following three items:

  1. A computer with TwA Deploy installed. Please follow the TwA installation instructions to install TwA Deploy onto your computer. Thereafter, run TwA’s “Hello World” test example to confirm that TwA Deploy is working correctly on your computer.
  2. A Google (a.k.a. Gmail) account (this is required in order to use the Google Cloud Platfrom).
  3. A major Credit Card (this is also required in order to use the Google Cloud Platform. However, users who qualify for the Google Cloud Platform free trial should be able to avoid any actual charges for the duration of Google’s free trial. Nevertheless, Google still requires a credit card even if you qualify for Google’s free trial.)

A computer running any recent version of Linux or MacOS should work fine with the htsquirrel. Alternately, a computer running either Windows 10 (version 1607 or later) or Windows Server 2019 (any version) should also work fine (since the TwA install program will automatically enable Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for use by Terraform and Ansible).