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Environment setup

Remember to clone Defguard repository recursively (with protos):
git clone --recursive [email protected]:DefGuard/defguard.git

With docker-compose

Using docker-compose you can setup a simple stack with:
  • backend
  • database (postgres)
  • VPN gateway
  • device connected to the gateway
This way you'll have some live stats data to work with.
To do so follow these steps:
  1. 1.
    Migrate database and insert test network and device:
docker-compose run core init-dev-env
  1. 2.
    Run the application:
docker-compose up

Cargo

To run backend without docker, you'll need:
  • postgres database
  • protobuf compiler (protoc)
  • environment variables set
Run postgres with:
docker-compose up -d db
You'll find environment variables in .env file. Source them however you like (we recommend https://direnv.net/). Once that's done, you can run backend with:
cargo run

Frontend

The domain used to access the frontend instance has to match with the cookie domain address (which can be set using DEFGUARD_COOKIE_DOMAIN).
For example, if the cookie domain is set to the default value of localhost, you should access frontend using localhost domain.