This document assumes you have already built Anna locally; you can find those docs here. Once you have built Anna, you can use the scripts/start-anna-local.sh script to start the KVS server. By default, the conf/anna-local.yml config file is used, which only specifies one routing thread and one storage thread. You are welcome to modify this file if you would like, but we generally do not recommend running more than one thread per process in local mode.
scripts/start-anna-local.sh {build} {start-cli} takes two arguments. If build is set to y (or yes) the build scripts will be run before start the Anna server. If {start-cli} is specified, the interactive Anna CLI will be started in this context after the server is started.
scripts/stop-anna-local.sh {remove-logs} can be used to stop the Anna server. If remove-logs is specified, all logs will be deleted. Otherwise they will be left in place -- this is primarily used for debugging purposes.