Starting Development

Setup your Docker environment

This project uses docker infrastructure. Make sure that you installed:

1. docker
2. docker-compose
3. docker-machine

• Create a new development virtual machine with docker-machine create hse.postgres.dev. This will help isolate your docker env from your host pc.
• Run eval $(docker-machine env hse.postgres.dev) to connect docker to this virtual machine in your terminal. You will need to repeat this in any new terminal tab.
• If you're not on macOS, you will probably need to manually mount your local code directory to your VM as a shared folder. This will allow it to be mounted to the containers at run time: VBoxManage sharedfolder add hse.postgres.dev --name $(pwd)/postgres --hostpath $(pwd)/postgres/ --automount. Make sure to stop your docker machine (docker-machine stop hse.postgres.dev) before executing this command. As soon as the command is executed, run your docker machine again using docker-machine start hse.postgres.dev.

Run the project

• Run docker build -t postgres . to build the project's container. It may take ages.
• Run docker run --name postgres postgres to run the container.

In a new terminal tab you can connect to the postgresql server using docker exec -it postgres psql. Don't forget to connect your terminal tab to the docker machine in a new tab first executing eval $(docker-machine env hse.postgres.dev).