This method is for deploying Open edX locally on a single server. Docker images are orchestrated with `docker-compose <https://docs.docker.com/compose/overview/>`_.
This is the only non-automatic step in the install process. You will be asked various questions about your Open edX platform and appropriate configuration files will be generated. If you would like to automate this step then you should run ``make configure`` interactively once. After that, you will have a ``config.json`` file at the root of the repository.
If you want to run a fully automated install, upload the ``config.json`` file to wherever you want to run Open edX, and then run ``make configure SILENT=1`` instead of ``make configure``. All values from ``config.json`` will be automatically loaded.
You will need to download the docker images from `Docker Hub <https://hub.docker.com/r/regis/openedx/>`_. Depending on your bandwidth, this might take a long time. Minor image updates will be incremental, and thus much faster.
If migrations are stopped with a ``Killed`` message, this certainly means the docker containers don't have enough RAM. See the :ref:`troubleshooting` section.
This command also needs to be run just once. It will make sure that static assets, such as images, stylesheets and Javascript dependencies, can be served by the nginx container.
This will launch the various docker containers required for your Open edX platform. The LMS and the Studio will then be reachable at the domain name you specified during the configuration step. You can also access them at http://localhost and http://studio.localhost.
After launching your platfom, the web UI will be available at `http://localhost:9000 <http://localhost:9000>`_. You will be asked to define a password for the admin user. Then, select a "Local environment" to work on and hit "Connect" and select the "local" group to view all running containers.
Among many other things, you'll be able to view the logs for each container, which is really useful.
