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 ## Setup
+0. **Create log files**
+``` basj
+mkdir /logs
+touch /logs/opaque_flask.log
+touch /logs/opaque_daemon.log
+```
+
 
 1. **Create Docker swarm:**
 The generated computational workload is handled by a [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/) swarm. A swarm is a group of machines that are running Docker and joined into a cluster. It consists out of two different kinds of members, managers and workers. Currently it is not possible to specify a dedicated Docker host, instead Opaque expects the executing system to be a swarm manager of a swarm with at least one dedicated worker machine. The [swarm setup](https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/swarm-tutorial/) process is described best in the Docker documentation.