1. To confirm the installation worked, open the web browser of your choice and enter `http://localhost:3000` into the address bar and see if the website loads correctly. An admin account has been created automatically, the username and password are `admin` and `qwerty` respectively.
1. By default, the site will lack any content. For testing purposes, you can generate some using the following command:
```
docker exec -it e621ng-e621-1 /app/bin/populate
```
The command can be run multiple times to generate more content.
Environmental variables are available to customize what kind of content is generated.
This repo provides a Dev Container configuration. You can use something like the [Dev Container extension for VSCode](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers) to make use of it. Simply install it, open the folder in VSCode, and click the button in the bottom right to open the folder in the Dev Container.
The postgres server accepts outside connections which you can use to access it with a local client. Use `localhost:34517` to connect to a database named `e621_development` with the user `e621`. Leave the password blank, anything will work.
Running a single machine install in production is possible, but is likely to be somewhat sluggish due to contention in disk between postgresql and opensearch.
If you are targeting more than a hundred thousand posts and reasonable user volumes, you probably want to procure yourself a database server. See tuning guides for postgresql and opensearch for help planning these requirements.
