Installing and configuring the PixieGateway server

Before we dive into the technical details, it would be a good idea to deploy a PixieGateway server instance to try things out.

There are mainly two types of installation you can try: local install and server install.

Local install: Use this method for testing and development.

For this part, I strongly recommend using Anaconda virtual environments (https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html) because they provide good isolation between the environments, enabling you to experiment with different versions and configurations of the Python package.

If you are managing multiple environments, you can get a list of all the available environments by using the following command:

conda env ...

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