Local development setup
This document is being written on an Ubuntu 22.04 desktop, so the instructions may need some adjustment on other distributions (etc).
Ubuntu 22.04 uses Python 3.10, so that's the version of Python we'll be using (where it's needed).
These instructions have been reported to work without any changes on Windows WSL2.
$ sudo apt -y install docker.io docker-buildx docker-compose-v2
## NOTE: You may need to remove the corresponding docker plugins first if the above command fails
$ sudo apt -y install build-essential curl docker-compose pwgen python3-venv xvfb
Note
If you're installing on GitHub Codespaces, you need run the following commands:
$ sudo apt purge moby-buildx && sudo apt install containerd
$ sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
$ newgrp docker
$ sudo systemctl restart docker
$ sudo chmod 666 /var/run/docker.sock
$ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash
## You may need to save as a script file first, then change she-bang to point to correct shell
Now log out of your desktop, then back in again, for the group change to become effective and nvm to be available
$ nvm install --lts 18
$ nvm alias default 18
$ nvm use 18
Confirm version 18 of NodeJS is active:
$ nvm list
$ npm install -g [email protected]
$ git clone https://github.com/getredash/redash
$ cd redash
$ yarn
Redash uses GNU Make to run things, so if you're not sure about something it's often a good idea to take a look over the Makefile which can help. 😄
$ make build
$ make compose_build
On my desktop (Ryzen 5600X) that took about 12 minutes to complete the first time. After that though, it's much faster at about a minute and a half each time.
It's a good idea to check that the docker images were built ok. We do that by telling docker to show us the local "docker images", which should include these three new ones. It's important the "created" time shows them to be very recent... if it's not, then they're old images left over from something else. 😉
$ docker image list
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
redash_scheduler latest 85bc2dc57801 2 minutes ago 1.38GB
redash_server latest 85bc2dc57801 2 minutes ago 1.38GB
redash_worker latest 85bc2dc57801 2 minutes ago 1.38GB
$ make create_database
$ make up
The docker compose ps command should show all of the docker pieces
are running:
$ docker compose ps
Name Command State Ports
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
redash_email_1 bin/maildev Up (healthy) 1025/tcp, 1080/tcp, 0.0.0.0:1080->80/tcp,:::1080->80/tcp
redash_postgres_1 docker-entrypoint.sh postg ... Up 0.0.0.0:15432->5432/tcp,:::15432->5432/tcp
redash_redis_1 docker-entrypoint.sh redis ... Up 6379/tcp
redash_scheduler_1 /app/bin/docker-entrypoint ... Up 5000/tcp
redash_server_1 /app/bin/docker-entrypoint ... Up 0.0.0.0:5001->5000/tcp,:::5001->5000/tcp,
0.0.0.0:5678->5678/tcp,:::5678->5678/tcp
redash_worker_1 /app/bin/docker-entrypoint ... Up 5000/tcp
The Redash web interface should also be available at http://localhost:5001, ready to be configured:
Once you've finished confirming everything works the way you want, then shut down the containers with:
$ make down
Install the Ubuntu packages needed by various data sources:
$ sudo apt install -y --no-install-recommends default-libmysqlclient-dev freetds-dev libffi-dev libpq-dev \
python3-dev libsasl2-dev libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit libssl-dev unixodbc-dev xmlsec1
Then create a Python virtual environment, for safely installing Python libraries without affecting Python on the rest of the system:
$ python3 -m venv ~/redashvenv1
$ source ~/redashvenv1/bin/activate
When the Python virtual environment is active in your session, it changes the prompt to look like this:
(redashvenv1) $
With that done, install the rest of the Python dependencies:
(redashvenv1) $ pip3 install wheel # "wheel" needs to be installed by itself first
(redashvenv1) $ pip3 install --upgrade black ruff launchpadlib pip setuptools
(redashvenv1) $ pip3 install poetry
(redashvenv1) $ poetry install --only main,all_ds,dev
Before committing changes to GitHub or creating a pull request, the source code needs to be checked and formatted for certain quality standards:
(redashvenv1) $ make format
pre-commit run --all-files
isort....................................................................Passed
black....................................................................Passed
flake8...................................................................Passed
Enabling Pre-commit check before commit.
(redashvenv1) $ pre-commit install
(redashvenv1) $ git commit -m 'Added xxx'