Docker Compose example
Warning
PactFlow On-Premises 1.x is now in maintenance mode and receives security updates only. It will no longer be supported after March 11, 2026.
To benefit from the latest features and improvements, upgrade to version 2.x as soon as possible.
In this guide, we'll provide an example docker compose
setup so that you can see how all of the bits hang together. We will demonstrate:
Authenticating to Quay.io
Running the PactFlow On-Premises enterprise container
Persistent storage with a postgres database
Pre-requsites
A working *nix environment and access to a terminal
Valid credentials to authenticate to our Docker image registry
PactFlow On-Premises license file
1. Authenticating to Quay.io
After obtaining valid robot credentials, you need to authenticate to Quay.io so that the docker engine is able to fetch our images.
docker login -u="<username>" -p="<password>" quay.io docker pull quay.io/pactflow/enterprise
After this, you should have the latest PactFlow On-Premises enterprise image on your machine. You can verify by executing
docker images quay.io/pactflow/enterprise
Which should produce an output such as:
> docker images quay.io/pactflow/enterprise REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE quay.io/pactflow/enterprise 1.9.0 32db429fda01 7 weeks ago 454MB quay.io/pactflow/enterprise latest 32db429fda01 7 weeks ago 454MB quay.io/pactflow/enterprise 1.8.0 7f9b3c3aa50e 3 months ago 462MB
2. PactFlow On-Premises license file
The PactFlow On-Premises on-premises version requires a license file to run. You should have received this from us during the on-boarding process. If not, please contact your Account Manager.
Save the license file into a temporary directory with the name pactflow-onprem.lic
(it needs to be the same directory as used in step 3).
3. Startup PactFlow On-Premises and supporting services
Save the below file as docker-compose.yml
in the same directory as the license file and then run docker-compose up
:
version: "3" services: pactflow: image: quay.io/pactflow/enterprise depends_on: - postgres environment: # This is set to localhost for this example but in a real deployment, this needs to be set to the actual URL of the application - PACTFLOW_BASE_URL=http://localhost # Insecure setting only for the purposes of this demo! Not to be used in production. - PACTFLOW_DATABASE_SSLMODE=disable # Insecure setting only for the purposes of this demo! Not to be used in production. - PACTFLOW_REQUIRE_HTTPS=false # Demo auth should only be used for demo purposes. Not to be used in production. - PACTFLOW_DEMO_AUTH_ENABLED=true # 'Allow all' for the webhook host whitelist should only be used for demo purposes. See docs for configuring this in production. - PACTFLOW_WEBHOOK_HOST_WHITELIST=/.*/ - PACTFLOW_HTTP_PORT=9292 - PACTFLOW_DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:password@postgres/postgres - Short log format only for demo purposes. Use json in production. - PACTFLOW_LOG_FORMAT=short - PACTFLOW_LOG_LEVEL=info - PACTFLOW_ADMIN_API_KEY=admin - PACTFLOW_MASTER_ENCRYPTION_KEY=thisissomerandombytes - PACTFLOW_COOKIE_SECRET=thisisasecret - PACT_BROKER_ADMIN_API_KEY=admin - PACTFLOW_HTTP_LOGGING_ENABLED=true ports: - "80:9292" healthcheck: test: ["CMD", "wget", "-nv", "-t1", "--spider", "http://localhost:9292/diagnostic/status/heartbeat"] interval: 30s timeout: 10s retries: 3 entrypoint: dockerize command: -wait tcp://postgres:5432 docker-entrypoint volumes: - ./pactflow-onprem.lic:/home/pactflow-onprem.lic postgres: image: postgres:13-alpine healthcheck: test: psql postgres --command "select 1" -U postgres volumes: - postgres-volume:/var/lib/postgresql/data environment: POSTGRES_USER: postgres POSTGRES_PASSWORD: password POSTGRES_DB: postgres volumes: postgres-volume:
You can verify all services by running docker ps
:
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 8318130fa98a quay.io/pactflow/enterprise "docker-entrypoint" 18 seconds ago Up 17 seconds (health: starting) 9292/tcp, 0.0.0.0:80->9292/tcp tmp_pactflow_1 7ba5d1679d09 kristophjunge/test-saml-idp "docker-php-entrypoi…" 7 minutes ago Up 17 seconds 0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp, 80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8443->8443/tcp tmp_simplesaml_1 c0e3059fa37c postgres "docker-entrypoint.s…" 7 minutes ago Up 17 seconds (health: starting) 0.0.0.0:5432->5432/tcp tmp_postgres_1
3. Log in to PactFlow On-Premises
Head to http://localhost in your browser and choose to login with "PACTFLOW DEMO AUTH". Provide a name and email address to create your account and login. (The details don't need to be valid and won't be used to send any emails.)
That's it!
For production use, you'll need to replicate this setup using a proper container orchestration tool, such as Kubernetes, AWS ECS/Fargate, AKS, GKE, Mesos etc, and your real Identity Provider.