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+We 💚 Opensource!
+
+Yes, because we feel that it’s the best way to build and improve a product. It allows people like you from across the globe to contribute and improve a product over time. And we’re super happy to see that you’d like to contribute to ZTKA.
+
+We are always on the lookout for anything that can improve the product. Be it feature requests, issues/bugs, code or content, we’d love to see what you’ve got to make this better. If you’ve got anything exciting and would love to contribute, this is the right place to begin your journey as a contributor to ZTKA and the larger open source community.
+
+**How to get started?**
+
+The easiest way to start is to look at existing issues and see if there’s something there that you’d like to work on. You can filter issues with the label “Good first issue” which are relatively self sufficient issues and great for first time contributors.
+
+Once you decide on an issue, please comment on it so that all of us know that you’re on it.
+
+If you’re looking to add a new feature, raise a new issue and start a discussion with the community. Engage with the maintainers of the project and work your way through.
+
+Below are all the details you need to know about the `RCloud Base` repo and get started with the development.
+
+# Rcloud Base
+
+This repository contains all the rcloud-system components that are the backbone for ztka and gitops.
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+- [Postgres](https://github.com/postgres/postgres): Primary database
+- [Ory Kratos](https://www.ory.sh/kratos): API for user management
+- [Elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/): Storage for audit logs
+
+> You can use the
+> [bitnami/charts](https://github.com/bitnami/charts/tree/master/bitnami/postgresql/#installing-the-chart)
+> for postgres and
+> [elastic/helm-charts](https://github.com/elastic/helm-charts) for
+> elasticsearch.
+
+## Development setup
+
+### Using `docker-compose`
+
+Run following Docker Compose command to setup all requirements like
+Postgres db, Kratos etc. for the rcloud-base.
+
+_This will start up postgres and elasticsearch as well as kratos and
+run the kratos migrations. It will also run all the necessary
+migrations. It also starts up a mail slurper for you to use Kratos._
+
+```bash
+docker-compose --env-file ./env.example up -d
+```
+
+Start rcloud-base:
+
+```bash
+go run github.com/RafayLabs/rcloud-base
+```
+
+### Manual
+
+#### Start databases
+
+##### Postgres
+
+```bash
+docker run --network host \
+    --env POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust \
+    -v pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data \
+    -it postgres
+```
+
+##### Elasticsearch
+
+```bash
+docker run --network host \
+    -v elastic-data:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data \
+    -e "discovery.type=single-node" \
+    -e "xpack.security.enabled=false" \
+    -it docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:8.0.0
+```
+
+#### Create the initial db and user
+
+```sql
+create database admindb;
+CREATE ROLE admindbuser WITH LOGIN PASSWORD '<your_password>';
+GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE admindb to admindbuser;
+```
+
+#### Ory Kratos
+
+Install Ory Kratos using the [installation
+guide](https://www.ory.sh/docs/kratos/install) from Kratos
+documentation.
+
+Perform the Kratos migrations:
+
+```bash
+export DSN='postgres://<user>:<pass>@<host>:<port>/admindb?sslmode=disable'
+kratos -c <kratos-config> migrate sql -e --yes
+```
+
+Start the Ory Kratos server using kratos config provided in
+[_kratos](./_kratos) directory.
+
+#### Run application migrations
+
+We use [`golang-migrate`](https://github.com/golang-migrate/migrate) to perform migrations.
+
+##### Install [`golang-migrate`](https://github.com/golang-migrate/migrate)
+
+```shell
+go install -tags 'postgres' github.com/golang-migrate/migrate/v4/cmd/migrate@latest
+```
+
+_`-tags 'postgres'` is important as otherwise it compiles without postgres support_
+
+You can refer to the [guide](https://github.com/golang-migrate/migrate/tree/master/cmd/migrate) for full details.
+
+##### Run migrations
+
+_It is required to perform Kratos migrations before this step._
+
+```shell
+export POSTGRESQL_URL='postgres://<user>:<pass>@<host>:<port>/admindb?sslmode=disable'
+migrate -path ./persistence/migrations/admindb -database "$POSTGRESQL_URL" up
+```
+
+See [cli-usage](https://github.com/golang-migrate/migrate#cli-usage) for more info.
+
+#### Start application
+
+Start rcloud-base:
+
+```bash
+go run github.com/RafayLabs/rcloud-base
+```
+
+## Need Help?
+
+If you are interested to contribute to rcloud-base but are stuck with any of the steps, feel free to reach out to us. Please create an issue in this repository describing your issue and we'll take it up from there.