Running On-Premise

Run the Universal Data Tool on your infrastructure.

For small companies or projects, you might want to consider just using the Desktop Application or udt.dev, which requires less setup!

The Universal Data Tool can be run and customized on your own infrastructure easily. This is best for users who want to keep their version of Universal Data Tool stable, and don't need new features from weekly releases. You may also want to keep your data within your network.

Run via Docker

The Universal Data Tool builds docker containers on every new release. You can run the Universal Data Tool using...

# Starts the Universal Data Tool on port 3000 and a collaborative server on 3001
docker run -d -p 3000:3000 -p 3001:3001 \
             -e UDT_collaborationServer_url=http://localhost:3001 \
             universaldatatool/universaldatatool

You can provide different options to the docker container to control various aspects of Universal Data Tool. Below is a table of a few of the configuration parameters can customize. You'll know if a configuration value is used because it will appear in the starting logs like the following image...

Configuration values are shown in a table on start

Environment Var	Description
UDT_collaborationServer_url	Collaboration server URL
UDT_pluginUrls	Comma-delimited URLs to plugins that should be loaded by default
UDT_auth_proxy_corsproxy	Proxy to use for CORS requests, e.g. to make api requests that are disallowed by CORs
UDT_auth_s3iam_accessKeyId	Access Key for uploading/importing from AWS S3 buckets
UDT_auth_s3iam_secretAccessKey	Secret Access Key for uploading/importing from AWS S3 buckets
UDT_s3iam_region	Region of S3 Bucket
UDT_auth_cognito_identityPoolId	Cognito Identity Pool Id
UDT_auth_cognito_region	Cognito Region
UDT_auth_cognito_userPoolId	Cognito user pool id
UDT_auth_cognito_userPoolWebClientId	Cognito user pool web client id
UDT_auth_cognito_storage_awsS3_bucket	Bucket to use for Cognito object storage
UDT_auth_cognito_storage_awsS3_region	Region of bucket to use for Cognito
UDT_labelhelp_disabled	Disable remote paid collaboration requests
UDT_labelhelp_apikey	API Key for requesting work from Label Help

These are the most common configuration values, but you can also customize hotkeys or any other attribute the appears in the AppConfig.

Independent Collaboration Server

Sometimes, you may want to run the Collaboration Server on a different machine than the Client Application, you can do this by using the npm module.

# via npm
npm install -g udt-collaboration-server

udt-collaboration-server --port 3001