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Quickstart

Use this guide to quickly start running Polaris. This is not intended for production use.

Prerequisites🔗

  • Have Docker (with Docker Compose v2) installed & running on your machine

Running🔗

Run the following command:

1curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/polaris/refs/heads/main/site/content/guides/quickstart/docker-compose.yml | docker compose -f - up

This command will:

  1. Create a Catalog named quickstart_catalog with RustFS-backed storage.
  2. Create a user principal quickstart_user with full access to the catalog.

Once the command has been run, you will see examples on how to interact with this Polaris server in the logs.