Configuring Your Environment

Deepgram's software is intended to be run using Docker, a containerization technology used to isolate, secure, and deploy applications across many different host environments and operating systems. Containers are more lightweight than virtual machines but provide many of the same isolation benefits.

Although Docker can be run from a variety of host operating systems, we recommend using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or a similar Linux distribution because we have tested our products most extensively in these systems.

Firewall

Docker typically takes care of networking concerns, so as long as your firewall is configured to allow Docker, you should have no issues.

Deepgram server containers listen on port 8080 inside the container, unless otherwise configured.

You'll need to permit outbound HTTPS network traffic to license.deepgram.com on port 443, and If you use Docker Hub (recommended), you'll need to allow outbound traffic to Docker's servers on port 443.