Automated Instance Setup
Hi, is there a way to fully automate the setup of a windmill instance without any manual interaction?
I got so far as to deploy a selfhosted docker stack with windmill, postgres and caddy. I can manually click through the initial setup wizard to enter the license key and it all works after that, so far so good. I would now like to skip/pre-seed the initial setup wizard or at least add the licence key and setup a secure admin account. I'm sorry if I overlooked something obvious in the docs but I'm kinda lost on this as this is all quite new for me, any input is appreciated!
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👋 You can set those up using environment variables:
https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill?tab=readme-ov-file#environment-variables
Specifically:
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SUPERADMIN_SECRET
- LICENSE_KEYOh well, I guess I overlooked something in the docs. Sorry. How do I use the
SUPERADMIN_SECRET though? I added it to my docker setup, reset everything and started a clean instance with a new database. I would have assumed that the initial login is now admin@windmill.dev and the value of that variable or that the initial setup wizard is skipped. However I'm still getting the initial setup dialog and have to login using the default credentials?A token that would let the caller act as a virtual superadmin superadmin@windmill.devYou can use it as a bearer token to setup initial admin accounts programmatically via the rest apis: https://app.windmill.dev/openapi.html#tag/user/post/users/create
Amazing, thanks! I can now script the creation of a new user and removal of the admin@windmill.dev user. Thank you very much, I think my issue is resolved. Can I mark this as closed or answered or something?
All good! No need to mark anything here 🙂