OpenMetadata/docs/install/run-locally.md

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This installation doc will help you start a OpenMetadata standalone instance on your local machine.

Run Locally

{% hint style="success" %} This is a quick start guide that will show you how to quickly start a standalone server. {% endhint %}

Build from source or download the distribution

Prerequisites

{% hint style="info" %} OpenMetadata is built using Java, DropWizard, Jetty, and MySQL.

1. Java 11 or above
2. MySQL 8 or above {% endhint %}

{% tabs %} {% tab title="Build from source " %} Follow these steps to checkout code from Github and build OpenMetadata locally

{% hint style="info" %} Prerequisites

Install Apache Maven 3.6 or higher {% endhint %}

# checkout OpenMetadata
git clone https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata
cd OpenMetadata

# build OpenMetadata
mvn install package -DskipTests

# navigate to directory containing the setup scripts
cd dist/target/
unzip openmetadata-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.zip
cd openmetadata-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT

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{% tab title="Download the release" %} Download the latest binary release from OpenMetadata, Once you have the tar file,

# untar it
tar -zxvf openmetadata-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz

# navigate to directory containing the launcher scripts
cd openmetadata-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT

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Install on your local machine

macOS

1. Setup Database

   • Install MySQL

   brew install mysql
   

   • Configure MySQL

     mysqladmin -u root password 'yourpassword'
     mysql -u root -p
     

   • Setup Database

     mysql -u root -p
     CREATE DATABASE openmetadata_db;
     CREATE USER 'openmetadata_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'openmetadata_password';
     GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON openmetadata_db.* TO 'openmetadata_user'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
     commit;
     

2. Run bootstrap scripts to initiate the database and tables

   cd $METADATA_HOME
   ./boostrap/bootstrap-storage.sh migrate
   

3. Start the OpenMetadata Server

      ./bin/openmetadata.sh start