Hasura GraphQL Engine on Docker with pgAdmin

This Docker Compose setup runs Hasura GraphQL Engine along with Postgres and pgAdmin4 using docker-compose.

Pre-requisites

• Docker
• Docker Compose

Usage

• Clone this repo on a machine where you'd like to deploy graphql engine
• Edit docker-compose.yaml and change PGADMIN_DEFAULT_EMAIL and PGADMIN_DEFAULT_PASSWORD to something secure (default pgAdmin login email/password) default value for above variables are:
  • PGADMIN_DEFAULT_EMAIL: [email protected]
  • PGADMIN_DEFAULT_PASSWORD: admin
• Read more Environment Variables here: https://hub.docker.com/r/dpage/pgadmin4/
• Edit docker-compose.yaml and change HASURA_GRAPHQL_ADMIN_SECRET to something secure
• docker compose up -d
• Navigate to http://localhost:5050, login and add a new server with the following parameters:
  General - Name: Hasura
  Connection - Host: postgres Username: postgres Password: must be the same as the POSTGRES_PASSWORD environment variable defined in the docker-compose.yaml, the default is postgrespassword

Important endpoints

• GraphQL endpoint will be http://localhost:8080/v1/graphql
• Hasura Console will be available on http://localhost:8080/console
• pgAdmin will be available on http://localhost:5050

Connecting to External Postgres

If you want to connect to an external/existing postgres database, replace HASURA_GRAPHQL_DATABASE_URL in docker-compose.yaml with your database url.

Note: localhost will resolve to the container ip inside a docker container, not the host ip