Local Setup

In this section of the documentation, we'll review what's required to get Varlog running on your local. For the fastest response when building the app, we recommend the bare metal setup. However, the docker setup is a better replica of the prod environment, and should be used to validate the integration of new features.

Regardless of which setup type you choose, there is one thing you'll need to do for both. You'll need to create a .env file in the root of the project. This file is used to populate the expected environment variables.

JWT_SIGNING_KEY="a-super-secure-signing-key"
HOSTNAME="localhost:8080"
REGISTRY_URL="http://localhost:8888"

Optionally, you can create some fake data using the fakedata cli tool. After you've installed fakedata to your path, run the make fake1gb or make fake5gb commands to create some fake data!

The next section reviews the setup requried for Varlog on bare metal. You can click here for the docker setup.