# Preparing Personium Environment Refer to [Personium Engineer Skill Set](https://hackmd.io/@dixonsiu/Personium-Engineer-Skill-Set) for what skills are needed to deliver Personium as a persondal data store (PDS) solution. ## Overview Normally it will take unexperienced personnel 13 days to **build and configure, and fine tune** a Personium Unit. The following is a rough estimations of man-day. 1. Install, configure & debug Personium Unit (3-tier) on AWS/Azure – (10 man-days) 2. Install necessary apps and scripts for demo – (3 man-days) ## Prerequisites Perform the followings before constrcting the Personium Unit. 1. Read through the following materials carefully. - [Getting started](https://personium.io/docs/en/getting-started/README/) - [For development or small PoC](https://personium.io/docs/en/getting-started/setup-unit/) - [For production](https://personium.io/docs/en/server-operator/README/) 1. Get a Domain name (FQDN) and DNS service. Configure the DNS record according to the [Personium specific requirements](https://github.com/personium/ansible/blob/develop/DNS_Setup_for_per-cell_url.md). 1. Get a proper SSL Certificate (or follow the building procedures to get a Let's Encrypt) 1. Prepare a AWS or Azure server or datacenter server MUST be globally accessible.
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Skill set / Profile of Personium Engineer

Refer to Preparing Personium Environment for server construction procedures. List of Roles For any simple PoC, you would need the following skill set corresponding to the roles listed below. If you have plans to use Personium for more complicated projects, I would suggest your build the Personium Unit with our help so that we can transfer all the knowledge to you. Infrastructure / System engineer A person who constructs a publicly accessible personal data store (PDS) service - Personium Unit (all-in-one or 3-tier). Please refer to this document for details. The following skills are required. Basic server knowledge: physical server, Virtualization, cloud (AWS/Azure) Basic system administration skill: Unix commands, SSH

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