DataHub Quickstart Guide
This guide provides instructions on deploying the open source DataHub locally. If you're interested in a managed version, Acryl Data provides a fully managed, premium version of DataHub.
Get Started with Managed DataHubDeploying DataHub
To deploy a new instance of DataHub, perform the following steps.
- Install Docker and Docker Compose v2 for your platform.
- On Windows or Mac, install Docker Desktop.
- On Linux, install Docker for Linux and Docker Compose.
Make sure to allocate enough hardware resources for Docker engine. Tested & confirmed config: 2 CPUs, 8GB RAM, 2GB Swap area, and 10GB disk space.
Launch the Docker Engine from command line or the desktop app.
Install the DataHub CLI
a. Ensure you have Python 3.7+ installed & configured. (Check using
python3 --version).b. Run the following commands in your terminal
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools
python3 -m pip install --upgrade acryl-datahub
datahub versionIf you're using poetry, run the following command.
poetry add acryl-datahub
datahub version
If you see "command not found", try running cli commands with the prefix 'python3 -m' instead like python3 -m datahub version
Note that DataHub CLI does not support Python 2.x.
To deploy a DataHub instance locally, run the following CLI command from your terminal
datahub docker quickstartThis will deploy a DataHub instance using docker-compose. If you are curious, the
docker-compose.yamlfile is downloaded to your home directory under the.datahub/quickstartdirectory.If things go well, you should see messages like the ones below:
Fetching docker-compose file https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datahub-project/datahub/master/docker/quickstart/docker-compose-without-neo4j-m1.quickstart.yml from GitHub
Pulling docker images...
Finished pulling docker images!
[+] Running 11/11
⠿ Container zookeeper Running 0.0s
⠿ Container elasticsearch Running 0.0s
⠿ Container broker Running 0.0s
⠿ Container schema-registry Running 0.0s
⠿ Container elasticsearch-setup Started 0.7s
⠿ Container kafka-setup Started 0.7s
⠿ Container mysql Running 0.0s
⠿ Container datahub-gms Running 0.0s
⠿ Container mysql-setup Started 0.7s
⠿ Container datahub-datahub-actions-1 Running 0.0s
⠿ Container datahub-frontend-react Running 0.0s
.......
✔ DataHub is now running
Ingest some demo data using `datahub docker ingest-sample-data`,
or head to http://localhost:9002 (username: datahub, password: datahub) to play around with the frontend.
Need support? Get in touch on Slack: https://slack.datahubproject.io/Upon completion of this step, you should be able to navigate to the DataHub UI at http://localhost:9002 in your browser. You can sign in using
datahubas both the username and password.
On Mac computers with Apple Silicon (M1, M2 etc.), you might see an error like no matching manifest for linux/arm64/v8 in the manifest list entries, this typically means that the datahub cli was not able to detect that you are running it on Apple Silicon. To resolve this issue, override the default architecture detection by issuing datahub docker quickstart --arch m1
To ingest the sample metadata, run the following CLI command from your terminal
datahub docker ingest-sample-data
If you've enabled Metadata Service Authentication, you'll need to provide a Personal Access Token
using the --token <token> parameter in the command.
That's it! Now feel free to play around with DataHub!
Troubleshooting Issues
Please refer to Quickstart Debugging Guide.
Next Steps
Ingest Metadata
To start pushing your company's metadata into DataHub, take a look at UI-based Ingestion Guide, or to run ingestion using the cli, look at the Metadata Ingestion Guide.
Invite Users
To add users to your deployment to share with your team check out our Adding Users to DataHub
Enable Authentication
To enable SSO, check out Configuring OIDC Authentication or Configuring JaaS Authentication.
To enable backend Authentication, check out authentication in DataHub's backend.
Change the Default datahub User Credentials
Please note that deleting the Data Hub user in the UI WILL NOT disable the default user. You will still be able to log in using the default 'datahub:datahub' credentials. To safely delete the default credentials, please follow the guide provided below.
Please refer to Change the default user datahub in quickstart.
Move to Production
We recommend deploying DataHub to production using Kubernetes. We provide helpful Helm Charts to help you quickly get up and running. Check out Deploying DataHub to Kubernetes for a step-by-step walkthrough.
The quickstart method of running DataHub is intended for local development and a quick way to experience the features that DataHub has to offer. It is not
intended for a production environment. This recommendation is based on the following points.
Default Credentials
quickstart uses docker-compose configuration which includes default credentials for both DataHub, and it's underlying
prerequisite data stores, such as MySQL. Additionally, other components are unauthenticated out of the box. This is a
design choice to make development easier and is not best practice for a production environment.
Exposed Ports
DataHub's services, and it's backend data stores use the docker default behavior of binding to all interface addresses. This makes it useful for development but is not recommended in a production environment.
Performance & Management
quickstartis limited by the resources available on a single host, there is no ability to scale horizontally.- Rollout of new versions requires downtime.
- The configuration is largely pre-determined and not easily managed.
quickstart, by default, follows the most recent builds forcing updates to the latest released and unreleased builds.
Other Common Operations
Stopping DataHub
To stop DataHub's quickstart, you can issue the following command.
datahub docker quickstart --stop
Resetting DataHub (a.k.a factory reset)
To cleanse DataHub of all of its state (e.g. before ingesting your own), you can use the CLI nuke command.
datahub docker nuke
Backing up your DataHub Quickstart (experimental)
The quickstart image is not recommended for use as a production instance. See Moving to production for recommendations on setting up your production cluster. However, in case you want to take a backup of your current quickstart state (e.g. you have a demo to your company coming up and you want to create a copy of the quickstart data so you can restore it at a future date), you can supply the --backup flag to quickstart.
datahub docker quickstart --backup
will take a backup of your MySQL image and write it by default to your ~/.datahub/quickstart/ directory as the file backup.sql. You can customize this by passing a --backup-file argument.
e.g.
datahub docker quickstart --backup --backup-file /home/my_user/datahub_backups/quickstart_backup_2002_22_01.sql
Note that the Quickstart backup does not include any timeseries data (dataset statistics, profiles, etc.), so you will lose that information if you delete all your indexes and restore from this backup.
Restoring your DataHub Quickstart (experimental)
As you might imagine, these backups are restore-able. The following section describes a few different options you have to restore your backup.
Restoring a backup (primary + index) [most common]
To restore a previous backup, run the following command:
datahub docker quickstart --restore
This command will pick up the backup.sql file located under ~/.datahub/quickstart and restore your primary database as well as the elasticsearch indexes with it.
To supply a specific backup file, use the --restore-file option.
datahub docker quickstart --restore --restore-file /home/my_user/datahub_backups/quickstart_backup_2002_22_01.sql
Restoring only the index [to deal with index out of sync / corruption issues]
Another situation that can come up is the index can get corrupt, or be missing some update. In order to re-bootstrap the index from the primary store, you can run this command to sync the index with the primary store.
datahub docker quickstart --restore-indices
Restoring a backup (primary but NO index) [rarely used]
Sometimes, you might want to just restore the state of your primary database (MySQL), but not re-index the data. To do this, you have to explicitly disable the restore-indices capability.
datahub docker quickstart --restore --no-restore-indices
Upgrading your local DataHub
If you have been testing DataHub locally, a new version of DataHub got released and you want to try the new version then you can just issue the quickstart command again. It will pull down newer images and restart your instance without losing any data.
datahub docker quickstart
Customization
If you would like to customize the DataHub installation further, please download the docker-compose.yaml used by the cli tool, modify it as necessary and deploy DataHub by passing the downloaded docker-compose file:
datahub docker quickstart --quickstart-compose-file <path to compose file>