Fides Documentation – Ethyca

CLI Reference

Running Fides Server

Command: webserver

The fides webserver starts the Fides webserver using the available configuration and environment variables. By default, when Fides starts the webserver it:

Reads the configurations from one of the following three locations:
1. The config file passed via the CLI;
2. The path specified by the FIDES__CONFIG_PATH environment variable;
3. The current working directory .fides from the fides.toml file.
Configures the Fides database if it is not already setup.
Checks all current resources are valid.
Makes the hosted UI available at http://{server_url}/ (e.g. http://localhost:8080/).

To learn more about configuring Fides see the How to Configure Fides guide.

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Usage: fides webserver

Starts the Fides webserver using the configuration provided and makes the UI available at http://{server_url}/ (e.g. http://localhost:8080/).

Running this command should result in output that resembles the following:

$ fides webserver
Loaded config from: .fides/fides.toml
2023-02-23 14:49:13.530 | INFO     | fides.api.ops.tasks:_create_celery:48 - Creating Celery app...
2023-02-23 14:49:13.530 | INFO     | fides.api.ops.tasks:_create_celery:66 - Autodiscovering tasks...
2023-02-23 14:49:16.295 | INFO     | fides.core.config.helpers:load_file:48 - Loading file .fides/fides.toml from .
2023-02-23 14:49:16.295 | INFO     | fides.api.main:start_webserver:371 - Starting webserver - Host: 0.0.0.0, Port: 8080
2023-02-23 14:49:16.312 | INFO     | fides.api.main:setup_server:221 - Starting Fides - v2.7.0
2023-02-23 14:49:16.313 | INFO     | fides.api.main:setup_server:222 - Startup configuration: reloading = False, dev_mode = False
2023-02-23 14:49:16.313 | INFO     | fides.api.main:setup_server:227 - Startup configuration: pii logging = False
2023-02-23 14:49:16.342 | INFO     | fides.api.ctl.database.database:init_db:51 - Initializing database
2023-02-23 14:49:16.343 | INFO     | fides.api.ctl.database.database:upgrade_db:43 - Running database migrations

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