If you want to use ConductR in your production environment, you will need to have a paid Lightbend subscription to do so. So, the scope of what we will do with ConductR in this chapter will be limited to how to install, set up, and use it locally for development purposes. There will be a few differences in how we use it locally versus how we will deploy it in production. The idea here is to give you a taste of what it can do, and if you have further interest in using it in production, you can pursue that path on your own.

The local development flavor of ConductR is referred to as the ConductR sandbox. It's a Docker image that allows you to simulate having a multiserver deployment, all on the comfy confines of your local computer. There are three main things that you will need to have installed locally in order to use the ConductR sandbox, which are as follows:

We already have Docker and sbt, so we really only need to install conductr...