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# Federation Development
## Setup
If you don't have a local clone of the Lemmy repo yet, just run the following command:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
```
## Running locally
You need to have the following packages installed, the Docker service needs to be running.
- docker
- docker-compose
- cargo
- yarn
Then run the following
```bash
cd docker/federation
./run-federation-test.bash -yarn
```
The federation test sets up 3 instances:
Instance / Username | Location
--- | ---
lemmy_alpha | [127.0.0.1:8540](http://127.0.0.1:8540)
lemmy_beta | [127.0.0.1:8550](http://127.0.0.1:8550)
lemmy_gamma | [127.0.0.1:8560](http://127.0.0.1:8560)
You can log into each using the instance name, and `lemmy` as the password, IE (`lemmy_alpha`, `lemmy`).
Firefox containers are a good way to test them interacting.
## Integration tests
To run a suite of suite of federation integration tests:
```bash
cd docker/federation-test
./run-tests.sh
```
## Running on a server
Note that federation is currently in alpha. **Only use it for testing**, not on any production server, and be aware that turning on federation may break your instance.
Follow the normal installation instructions, either with [Ansible](administration_install_ansible.md) or
[manually](administration_install_docker.md). Then replace the line `image: dessalines/lemmy:v0.x.x` in
`/lemmy/docker-compose.yml` with `image: dessalines/lemmy:federation`. Also add the following in
`/lemmy/lemmy.hjson`:
```
federation: {
enabled: true
tls_enabled: true,
allowed_instances: example.com,
}
```
Afterwards, and whenever you want to update to the latest version, run these commands on the server:
```
cd /lemmy/
sudo docker-compose pull
sudo docker-compose up -d
```