Setting up PeTaL with Docker

1. Install Docker

• Windows: https://hub.docker.com/editions/community/docker-ce-desktop-windows/
• MacOS: https://hub.docker.com/editions/community/docker-ce-desktop-mac

2. Clone or download PeTaL repository

• From main branch: https://github.com/nasa/PeTaL

3. Start Docker container
   In your terminal, navigate to your PeTaL repo: cd Downloads/PeTaL
   To start your docker container, run docker-compose up

4. Open PeTaL site
   Once all dependencies are downloaded and container is up and running in Docker Dashboard, expand drop-down menu on PeTaL container, click the “OPEN IN BROWSER” button on the site labeled “PeTaL_web”, this will open up the PeTaL site

5. Connect to Neo4j database
   Log in to the Neo4j database by clicking on “OPEN IN BROWSER” on the site labeled “PeTaL_neo4j”, make sure the connection is on a Neo4j “bolt” server, then enter the login credentials
   Username: “neo4j” Password: “life”

6. Populate the Neo4j database (Bitflow):
   On Docker Dashboard, click on “CLI” on “PeTaL_web”, then run this line to populate the database
   ./run config/mock_species_articles.json
   Ctrl-C once the database has enough articles for testing
   ./run config/search.json