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Manage the workflow engine's Docker Compose stack. Use when starting, stopping, rebuilding containers, or resetting the database.

Altinn By Altinn schedule Updated 4/13/2026

name: docker description: Manage the workflow engine's Docker Compose stack. Use when starting, stopping, rebuilding containers, or resetting the database.

Profiles

Profile Services
app workflow-engine + postgres
dashboard dashboard
full everything (engine + postgres + dashboard + monitoring + mocks)

Common commands

Start a profile:

docker compose --profile <profile> up -d

Rebuild and deploy the engine:

docker compose build workflow-engine && docker compose --profile app up -d --no-deps workflow-engine

Rebuild and deploy the dashboard:

docker compose build dashboard && docker compose --profile dashboard up -d --no-deps dashboard

Stop everything:

docker compose --profile full down

View container status:

docker compose ps

View logs for a specific service:

docker compose logs -f <service-name>

Container reference

Container Port(s) Purpose
workflow-engine 8080, 8081 API
dashboard 8090 Monitoring UI
postgres 5433 Database
pgadmin 5050 PostgreSQL admin UI
lgtm 7070, 4317, 4318 Grafana + Prometheus + Loki + Tempo + OTLP
blackbox-exporter Prometheus blackbox exporter
postgres-exporter 9187 Prometheus PostgreSQL exporter
wiremock 6060 Mock app callbacks

Database reset

Truncate all workflow data (requires running postgres container):

docker compose exec postgres psql -U postgres -d workflow_engine -c 'TRUNCATE "Workflows", "Steps" CASCADE;'

Notes

  • Dashboard wwwroot/ is bind-mounted — frontend file edits are live without rebuild (just browser refresh, or automatic via hot-reload).
  • The engine can be run on the host from the workflow-engine-app directory with dotnet run --project src/WorkflowEngine.App (requires postgres container).
Install via CLI
npx skills add https://github.com/Altinn/altinn-studio --skill docker
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