Environment setup

Remember to clone Defguard repository recursively (with protos):

git clone --recursive git@github.com: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. Migrate database and insert test network and device:

docker-compose run core init-dev-env

  1. 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.

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