Creating your first cluster (PGD Essential) v6.0.0

This part of the Getting Started guide will help you create a local cluster using Docker Compose. This is a great way to get familiar with the EDB Postgres Distributed (PGD) Essential features and functionality.

Prerequisites

• Docker and Docker Compose installed on your local machine.

Download the PGD Docker Compose kit

1. Download the Docker kit from the EDB website.
2. Extract the contents of the downloaded file to a directory on your local machine.
3. Navigate to the extracted directory.
4. Open a terminal window and run the following command to start the Docker containers:

make up

This command will start the Docker containers and create a local cluster with the default configuration.

5. Once the containers are up and running, you can access the PGD cluster using the following command:

make psql

This command will connect you to the primary node of the cluster using the psql command-line interface.