Skip to content

Installation

Requirements

To run this project, ensure you have the following requirements installed and running on your machine:

  • Docker 12+
  • Python 3.8+
  • Make
  • pg_config (brew install libpq or brew install postgres on Mac)

Clone the fidesdemo repo

Clone Fides Demo, and run make install to begin setup. Among other things, this will create a Flask app to mimic your application, and provide several YAML files that annotate the Flask app's databases. 

1
2
3
4
git clone https://github.com/ethyca/fidesdemo
cd fidesdemo
make install
source venv/bin/activate

Next, run make server. You can now visit http://127.0.0.1:2000/ to explore the test app. It is a simple e-commerce marketplace where users can buy and sell products.

Similarly you can visit http://127.0.0.1:8080/docs to check that fidesops is up and running and preview the set of API endpoints that are available for us to run requests on fidesops.

Back to top