Prerequisites Shaper is a multiplatform project. For production or staging environment, you need only the latest "ASP.NET Core Runtime". https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet For development, you need also the latest "Visual Studio". https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/ If you want to use a local database, "Microsoft SQL Server" is recommended. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-downloads  Cloud or On Premise Shaper is based on ASP.NET so you can host it where you want: On Premise with Windows and IIS On Premise with Linux and Nginx In a Docker environment On Microsoft Azure ...and so on!