1. Start off by spinning Metabase up:
docker compose up -d2. Metabase Initial Setup
After the metabase container is in a healthy state, the metabase-setup sidecar automatically creates the admin user (skipping the UI wizard). You can access Metabase at:
open http://localhost:3000/Email: admin@metabase.local
Password: adminMetabase ships with a wide variety Official Connectors out-of-the box, including BigQuery, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Starburst/Trino, etc.
For Community Connectors, such as DuckDB, the JDBC driver must first be downloaded into the plugins/, prior to Metabase initialization (default: /app/plugins), which is exactly what metabase-init does
- Bootstrap Metabase infrastructure in Docker
- Build data viz for NYC Taxi Dataset on Metabase