Preparing the infrastructure code environment

We have chosen Git to be our version control system. Let's go ahead and install the Git package on our development system.

Install Git:

$ sudo apt-get install git

Check the correctness of the Git installation:

$ git --version

If you decide to use an IDE such as eclipse for your development, it might be easier to install a Git plugin to integrate Git to your IDE. For example, the EGit plugin can be used to develop with Git in Eclipse. We do this by navigating to the Help | Install New Software menu entry.You will need to add the following URL: http://download.eclipse.org/egit/update.