Look into the Overview section at the beginning of this tutorial to get an introduction to the user guide.

The user guide talks about setting up the mycloudportal in your local environment and it involves.

1. downloading the web application from
2. setting up the tomcat server
3. exploding the downloaded webapp into tomcat
4. setting up the mysql database.
5. configuring the mycloudportal with any supported cloud.
6. creating users etc.