Many friends who want to experience MetaGPT are stuck in the first step: installing and configuring the basic environment.
The goal of this article is to weaken the environmental restrictions and let everyone quickly experience the charm of MetaGPT. On the basis of not relying on any local environment (as long as you have a browser), it takes about 5 to 10 minutes for MetaGPT to start working.
Step 1: Prepare the cloud environment
Instead of relying on the local environment, then we need a cloud environment. Here we choose to use [Docker Playground](https://labs.play-with-docker.com/), because this environment has Docker and can access https://api.openai.com/v1 at the same time, the environment is free.
Specific operation:
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Visit [Docker Playground](https://labs.play-with-docker.com/), and log in with your docker hub account. If you don't have an account, register for one, it's free.
Note: Due to limited resources, sometimes the login may fail and the error message: We are really sorry but we are out of capacity and cannot create your session at the moment. Please try again later.
If the above prompt appears, you can wait for a while and log in again, or you can use [Kubernetes Playground](https://labs.play-with-k8s.com/) instead. Of course, if you have a more suitable cloud environment, it is also possible.
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After logging in to Docker Playground, click ADD NEW INSTANCE to start a virtual machine.