Installation

Overview

We recommend running FortWorx in a containerized environment like Kubernetes, however you can use it in non-containerized environments as well if needed. This guide a quick start on how to start FortWorx on your development environment. Please the Production Setup for information on running FortWorx in a production environment.

Requirements

FortWorx runs as a single binary with no external dependencies. It is designed to run on Linux or Mac systems and is available in 32 and 64 bit versions.

Get Started

Download

Choose your desired platform and get started:

curl https://get.fort.works/fort-0.1.0.tar
tar xvf fort-0.1.0.tar

Start

note

This starts fort server as a non-production service.

$ cd fort-0.1.0
$ ./fort serve --log-format text
4:50PM INF starting backend
4:50PM INF database file path=/Users/tom/.fort/fort.db
4:50PM INF API server ready

Check

You can check if everything is working.

$ curl http://localhost:9913/_ping
pong
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