appendix-a

appendix A  Required tools

 

You can use this appendix as a quick reference for installing all the tools used throughout the book.

A.1 Rust

To install Rust, see https://www.rust-lang.org/learn/get-started.

NOTE We use rustc 1.84.0 (9fc6b4312 2025-01-07). If you already have Rust installed, you can install this specific version with rustup install 1.84.0 and then set it as default with rustup default 1.84.0. For some Spin sections, we use Rust version 1.85.0. You can follow the same steps to install it and swap between different Rust versions as needed.

A.1.1 Target installation

Here are the Rust targets used in this book and how to install them:

  • wasm32-unknown-unknown—rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
  • wasm32-wasip1—rustup target add wasm32-wasip1
  • wasm32-wasip2—rustup target add wasm32-wasip2

A.1.2 Cargo installs

These are the Cargo-based tools we’ll install as needed:

A.2 Git LFS

To install Git LFS, see https://git-lfs.com/.

A.3 Docker

There are two ways you can install Docker:

A.4 JS toolchain

A.5 Python toolchain

A.6 Spin

A.7 Ollama setup

A.8 regctl

A.9 container2wasm