See the docs for more information.

Quick start

Using Docker compose

The fastest way to experiment with Bootzooka is using the provided Docker compose setup. It starts three images: Bootzooka itself (either locally built or downloaded), PostgreSQL server and Graphana LGTM for observability.

Backend: PostgreSQL & API

To run Bootzooka's backend locally, you'll still need a running instance of PostgreSQL with a bootzooka database. You can spin up one easily using docker:

# use "bootzooka" as a password
docker run --name bootzooka-postgres -p 5432:5432 -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=bootzooka -e POSTGRES_DB=bootzooka -d postgres

Then, you can start the backend:

OTEL_SDK_DISABLED=true SQL_PASSWORD=bootzooka ./backend-start.sh

Unless you've got an OpenTelemetry collector running, OpenTelemetry should be disabled to avoid telemetry export exceptions.

Frontend: Yarn & webapp

You will need the yarn package manager to run the UI. Install it using your package manager or:

curl -o- -L https://yarnpkg.com/install.sh | bash

Then, you can start the frontend:

./frontend-start.sh

And open http://localhost:8081.

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