Apache Superset is a powerful, open-source data visualization platform that is very popular across a number of organizations. The tool has a vibrant community of contributors and develops new features and functionality very quickly. This article will walk you through a quickstart of getting Apache Superset run on your laptop within 5 minutes.
Pre-Requisites
You will need a laptop with at least 8 GB of RAM
Install docker on your laptop from Docker: Accelerated, Containerized Application Development
Install Superset locally
1. Clone Superset's repo in your terminal with the following command:
git clone -b 2.1 https://github.com/apache/superset.gitNote: the “-b 2.1” selects the 2.1 version of Apache superset, which is a stable release. In general, it’s a good idea to pull from a stable branch of Superset rather than pulling from master
2. Navigate to the folder you created in step 1:
cd superset4. Now run the following commands:
docker-compose -f docker-compose-non-dev.yml pull
docker-compose -f docker-compose-non-dev.yml up -d
By default, this will pull the docker image for v2.1 (or the branch you select), and build all the components for Superset locally.
5. Your Apache superset local instance should start up in a few minutes. If you want to check the status of your build, type docker ps to see the status of the different containers
6. The local instance of Superset will be accessible at http://localhost:8088/ (default username / password: admin / admin)
7. That's it! Now you can go in and explore the dashboarding capabilities of superset - by default it has access to some data from world bank and some pre-built dashboards.
Conclusion
Hope you enjoyed this article. This is a series of 5-minute articles for anyone looking to quickly get set up on the tools of the modern data stack.
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