Setting Up Community Edition

This quick start guide will walk you through installing and starting Lenses using the Community Edition, an all-in one docker compose, including Kafka brokers.

This is a quick start for a local setup using the Lenses Community edition. To connect to your Kafka clusters, see here.

By running the following command including the ACCEPT_EULA setting your are accepting the Lenses EULA agreement.

Run the following command:

terminal

wget https://lenses.io/preview -O docker-compose.yml \
&& ACCEPT_EULA=true docker compose up

The very first time you run this command it will take a bit longer as Docker has to download the images. Subsequent runs should take much less time.

Also note you can run ACCEPT_EULA=true docker compose up -d to run your compose command in detached mode.

To run this setup smoothly, your Docker settings must allocate at least 5GB of memory

Once the images are pulled and containers started, you can login by going to http://localhost:9991 or the IP of your Docker host.

User name: admin

Password: admin

Community login

It may take a few seconds for the agent to fully boot and connect to HQ.

The quick start uses a docker-compose file to:

1

Start Postgres, the Agent uses Postgres as a backing store.

2

Start a single local Kafka Broker

3

Start a local Confluent Schema Registry

4

Start HQ and create an environment & agent key

5

Start Agent and to connect to Kafka, the Schema Registry and HQ.