Running OSMT Quickstart from Windows

[JohnKallies]

To start a demo OSMT using the Quickstart, you will need to have git and Docker installed, with at least 6GB allocated to Docker. More memory will be better.

• Installing Docker on Windows is a manageable task, but it is not a simple double-click installation. Starting a demo OSMT via Quickstart is simpler in MacOS or in Linux. If you are a Windows user, you can install Docker with these instructions.

Windows and Quickstart

Download the OSMT source code repo with this command:

git clone https://github.com/wgu-opensource/osmt.git

Using the OSMT development utility (osmt_cli.sh)

The OSMT source code includes a utility named osmt_cli.sh; this simplifies setting up an OSMT environment and doing routine tasks. You can run via a terminal window, from the OSMT git repo's root directory. osmt_cli.sh uses BASH, and works on MacOS and Linux. Using Windows, you may need to use a program like WSL2, "Git Bash" or CygWin. Run this command to see the help output:

./osmt_cli.sh -h

If you are using Windows, and having trouble running this help command, please reach out here in the Discussion area.

[bredd]

For running "osmt_cli.sh" on Windows, Git Bash works best for me.

[JohnKallies]

@bredd Thank you for the feedback.

I found on my spare Windows 10 desktop tucked away in my basement, with a fresh Docker Desktop installed, I needed to change my env files, changing the underscores in the service URLs to hyphens to match what I go from docker ps. Did you have to do that as well?