Accessing the platform

TRAC PROFESSIONAL

If your organisation has an enterprise deployment of TRAC PROFESSIONAL, your system administrator should be able to provide details on how to get access.

TRAC COMMUNITY

Note

If you are taking part in an early release programme, you should have already received email instructions explaining how to access the application.

Installation

TRAC COMMUNITY is a free-to-use sandbox deployment of the TRAC platform, which is available on Docker

Run this command in your Docker Desktop Terminal:

docker pull fintrac/trac-sandbox:latest

You should now see the image listed. Click the pull icon and expand the optional settings.

The host port should be 8080. The container path is /mnt/trac. For the host path, create an empty folder on your local machine and select that.

Click Run. After a minute or so you should see a message saying the “… Service is up and running”

Click on the host port link to open the application.

Corporate firewalls

If you intend to use TRAC COMMUNITY inside a corporate firewall you will probably need to install the company Root Certificate. If you see errors about network connections to GitHub, that is a sign you need to do this. Without doing so you will be able to use the application but will be blocked from accessing repositories.

First, find your root certificate. An easy way to do this is to open a Chrome browser, connect to any external website and click the controller icon next to the website address.

Then click on the certificate to view it.

Select the root and then export.

The certificate should be stored in the config folder inside the TRAC data directory, that was set up in the Installation section. It should have a lower case name with no spaces and end in .crt.

Finally, open the trac-platform.yaml file in your TRAC directory and add a reference to the root certificate in the top section, as highlighted.