You need to install docker and docker-compose (if using Linux; on Windows and Mac compose is included with Docker Desktop).

Make sure to allocate enough hardware resources for Docker engine. Tested & confirmed config: 2 CPUs, 8GB RAM, 2GB Swap area.

The easiest way to bring up and test DataHub is using DataHub Docker images which are continuously deployed to Docker Hub with every commit to repository.

You can easily download and run all these images and their dependencies with our quick start guide.

DataHub Docker Images:

• linkedin/datahub-gms
• linkedin/datahub-frontend-react
• linkedin/datahub-mae-consumer
• linkedin/datahub-mce-consumer

Dependencies:

• Kafka, Zookeeper, and Schema Registry
• Elasticsearch
• MySQL
• Neo4j

If you want to test ingesting some data once DataHub is up, see Ingestion for more details.

See Using Docker Images During Development.

We use GitHub Actions to build and continuously deploy our images. There should be no need to do this manually; a successful release on Github will automatically publish the images.

This is not our recommended development flow and most developers should be following the Using Docker Images During Development guide.

To build the full images (that we are going to publish), you need to run the following:

COMPOSE_DOCKER_CLI_BUILD=1 DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker-compose -p datahub build

This is because we're relying on builtkit for multistage builds. It does not hurt also set DATAHUB_VERSION to something unique.

To serve the legacy Ember UI, follow the instructions below.

Before continuing: If you've already run a deploy script, don't forget to clear containers using docker container prune

Use the quickstart-ember.sh script to launch all containers in DataHub, including a frontend server that serves the Ember UI

./quickstart-ember.sh

Run the following command to launch only the Ember server and its required dependencies

docker-compose -f docker-compose.ember.yml -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.override.yml up datahub-frontend-ember

Once complete, navigate to localhost:9001 in your browser to see the legacy Ember app.

If you'd like to serve the React and Ember UIs side-by-side, you can deploy the datahub-frontend-ember service manually.

To deploy all DataHub containers, run the quickstart script:

./quickstart.sh

Next, deploy the container that serves the Ember UI:

docker-compose -f docker-compose.ember.yml -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.override.yml up --no-deps datahub-frontend-ember

First, start the React frontend server & its required dependencies:

docker-compose up datahub-frontend-react

Then, start the Ember frontend server & its required dependencies:

docker-compose -f docker-compose.ember.yml -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.override.yml up datahub-frontend-ember

Navigate to localhost:9002/ to view the React app & localhost:9001/ to view the legacy Ember app.