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0 I have prepared a Gitpod wokspace definition that allows me to start a fresh development environment with the latest release of Dapr (dapr.io) installed as well as supporting containers that provide state store (Redis, MySQL) and Pub/Sub (Redis) capabilities. This environment is a perfect starting point for trying out Dapr, running Dapr tutorials and combining Dapr with different technologies. You can start it with a single button click in the GitHub repository or by navigating to this Gitpod url.
The Gitpod workspace is illustrated below: on top of the Gitpod base image – that provides among other things Ubuntu, VS Code, Node and Docker – the workspace comes with Dapr CLI and running containers with MySQL, Redis, Zipkin and Dapr proper.
Once the workspace opens and starts – which may take up 25 to 50 seconds the first time you start yours – it will look like shown below. The README document is open in the editor – with instructions and descriptions and a suggestion for trying out Dapr and adding MySQL as a statestore.
Resources
Dapr Gitpod workspace repository: https://github.com/lucasjellema/gitpod-dapr
Direct link to opening your own Dapr Gitpod Worksapce: https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/lucasjellema/gitpod-dapr
Dapr home page: https://dapr.io/
This environment has Dapr installed – both the Dapr CLI based on [these instructions https://docs.dapr.io/getting-started/install-dapr-cli/ and also the Dapr Sidecar binaries (as locally running Docker Containers for Dapr, Redis and Zipkin) – according to [the instructions provided here https://docs.dapr.io/getting-started/install-dapr-selfhost/.
Also: follow the instructions in this document – Getting Started with the Dapr API – https://docs.dapr.io/getting-started/get-started-api/ . Subsequently – or even before that – feel free to get going with the Quickstarts https://docs.dapr.io/getting-started/quickstarts/
Related posts:
Marrying Fn Functions to Dapr.io–leverage the power of the proxy 
Materials for Workshop Microservices Choreography with Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka and Node.JS 
Dapr on OKE–Distributed Application Runtime on OCI Kubernetes Engine 
Customizing Dapr–preparing my environment 
Submitting my Custom Dapr State Component as a formal Open Source Contribution–work in progress
