PNDA is an open source platform for network data analytics. It is horizontally scalable and complex to deploy on a single computer. To be able to test smaller scale applications in the developer computers, a smaller downsized version of PNDA known as Red PNDA (https://github.com/pndaproject/red-pnda) is also available. In this recipe, we will configure Red PNDA, the minimal version of PNDA in a laptop.