Local

For development, run Postgres and Redis in Docker and the gateway on the host with hot reload.

Dependencies

git clone https://github.com/boelabs/bifrost.git && cd bifrost
bun install
docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f compose.local.yaml up -d postgres redis

This starts only Postgres and Redis locally (plaintext on localhost), which the gateway reaches without TLS — so there is no Bun TLS issue.

Configure and run

Create apps/gateway/.env (see Setup) with the local connection strings:

DATABASE_URL=postgres://gateway:gateway@localhost:5432/bifrost
REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379

Apply migrations and start it on Bun with hot reload:

bun run --filter @boelabs/bifrost db:migrate
bun run --filter @boelabs/bifrost dev
curl http://localhost:4000/health/ready

dev runs the gateway on Bun with --watch (restart on change). Next, the Quickstart registers a provider and makes your first call.

Full stack locally

To run everything (gateway + docs + dependencies) in containers instead of on the host:

docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f compose.local.yaml up -d

The override binds Postgres, Redis, the gateway, and docs to 127.0.0.1; it is intentionally not loaded by production PaaS deployments.

See Deployment → The Compose stack.