Running Authgear locally with Docker Compose

This is a demo of how you can run Authgear with Docker Compose locally. This setup is NOT intended for production use.

First time setup

Step 0: Edit your /etc/hosts on your host machine

Add the following to /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 accounts.localhost
127.0.0.1 portal.localhost

Step 1: Start the dependent services

docker compose up -d postgres redis minio

Step 2: Run database migrations

docker compose run --rm -it authgear authgear database migrate up
docker compose run --rm -it authgear authgear audit database migrate up
docker compose run --rm -it authgear authgear images database migrate up
docker compose run --rm -it authgear-portal authgear-portal database migrate up

Step 3: Create object store buckets

Run this command to enter the container.

docker compose exec -it minio bash

Inside the container, do these

mc alias set local http://localhost:9000 "$MINIO_ROOT_USER" "$MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD"
mc mb local/images
mc mb local/userexport

Press CTRL-D to exit the container

Step 4: Start Authgear

docker compose up

Step 5: Create the project configuration for "accounts"

docker compose run --rm --workdir "/work" -v "$PWD/accounts:/work" authgear authgear init --interactive=false \
  --purpose=portal \
  --for-helm-chart=true \
  --app-id="accounts" \
  --public-origin="http://accounts.localhost:3100" \
  --portal-origin="http://portal.localhost:8010" \
  --portal-client-id=portal \
  --phone-otp-mode=sms \
  --disable-email-verification=true \
  --search-implementation=postgresql \
  -o /work

Step 6: Create the project "accounts"

docker compose run --rm --workdir "/work" -v "$PWD/accounts:/work" authgear-portal authgear-portal internal configsource create /work
docker compose run --rm authgear-portal authgear-portal internal domain create-default --default-domain-suffix ".localhost"

Step 7: Create your account in project "accounts"

Important

The email used in this step is user@example.com while the password is secretpassword. Feel free to adjust the email or the password.

docker compose exec authgear authgear internal admin-api invoke \
  --app-id accounts \
  --endpoint "http://127.0.0.1:3002" \
  --host "accounts.localhost:3100" \
  --query '
    mutation createUser($email: String!, $password: String!) {
      createUser(input: {
        definition: {
          loginID: {
            key: "email"
            value: $email
          }
        }
        password: $password
      }) {
        user {
          id
        }
      }
    }
  ' \
  --variables-json '{"email":"user@example.com","password":"secretpassword"}'

It should output something like

{"data":{"createUser":{"user":{"id":"VXNlcjoyMDhkYWFkYy0wZmM4LTQ1Y2MtODQwNS01ODIzNTVmYTI0ZWU"}}}}

Take note of the user node ID.

Step 8: Decode the user node ID

Important

The literal user node ID used here is NOT intended for copy-and-paste directly. You have to replace it with the user node ID you obtained in the previous step.

echo "VXNlcjoyMDhkYWFkYy0wZmM4LTQ1Y2MtODQwNS01ODIzNTVmYTI0ZWU" | basenc --base64url --decode

It should output something like

User:208daadc-0fc8-45cc-8405-582355fa24ee

Take note of the user raw ID.

Step 9: Grant yourself access to the project "accounts"

Important

The literal user raw ID used here is NOT intended for copy-and-paste directly. You have to replace it with the user raw ID you obtained in the previous step.

docker compose run --rm authgear-portal authgear-portal internal collaborator add --app-id accounts --user-id 208daadc-0fc8-45cc-8405-582355fa24ee --role owner

Step 10: Visit the portal

Visit http://portal.localhost:8010 and sign in with your account created in a previous step.

Non-first time setup

You need not go through the steps again if you shut down server, and want to restart.

You just run

docker compose up