FoundationDB Docker Playground

For automation used just as a more human-oriented make. You can get it from brew.

To run a test cluster you first need to build a docker image of FoundationDB. Look here.

After the image is assembled we can run docker-compose:

> just up
> just cli

And init our database:

fdb> configure new single ssd-redwood-1-experimental
fdb> status

Redwood’s storage engine name is is ssd-redwood-1-experimental in FDB 7.1 and 7.2. Despite the “experimental” label, this version of Redwood is production-ready and Snowflake has been using it in production for about 6 months.

We will be dropping the -experimental suffix soon on the main branch, and starting with FDB 7.3 the name will just be ssd-redwood-1 but for backward compatibility the ssd-redwood-1-experimental name will still be supported as an alias.

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