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 ## Status
 Australis is a work in progress and does not support all the features of Apache Aurora.
 
+### Build locally
+This project uses go mods. To build locally run:
+
+`$ go build -o australis main.go`
 
 ### Building debian package
 From the inside of the deb-packaging folder, run [build_deb.sh](deb-packaging/build_deb.sh)
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