Beats developer guide needs to describe how to install mage

[dedemorton]

Contributors' guide needs to be updated with instructions (or pointers to instructions) about installing mage.

We currently have mage as a dependency, but don't describe how to install it.

[dedemorton]

Also need to tell users to run mage GenerateCustomBeat from the beats directory

[philippkahr]

Hi @dedemorton
I experienced the same issue when I started contributing to beats. I just started with Go and thus GOPATH and so on was not very clear. Maybe we should not only point to a direction where someone has a guide but instead, generate a little shell script that prepares your machine? Maybe also point out how to use vagrant to have a fully recreate able testing and developing environment. #14148

I already started an issue about the contributing guidelines and found a meta issue. I think those should be linked.
#14260
#11102

[bestpath-gb]

Also need to tell users to run mage GenerateCustomBeat from the beats directory

I've just opened a PR to address that problem but not the requirement to add instructions for installing Mage.

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