See the docs for more information.

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.

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.

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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