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Just wish the local development story wasn't so bound to a installation or the concept of instances. I just want a compose file in my repositories that starts Postgres and "Gel" separately with the option to execute commands within the container

I mean, I don't need it anymore because I did it myself now, but it definitely annoys me that it's not first class

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You can use Docker (and Docker Compose) with Gel for local development [1], but of course you'd miss out on most management features of the CLI, because it's not built to supplant the docker/docker-compose CLI. Are there any particular issues you have currently with the Docker image approach?

[1] https://docs.geldata.com/resources/guides/deployment/docker

Btw, I want to start them separately because we deploy a standard HA Postgres cluster and want to rely on proven tooling.

That's already supported, you just need to set the Postgres cluster URI in the `GEL_SERVER_BACKEND_DSN` env var ([1]).

[1] https://docs.geldata.com/reference/reference/environment#gel...

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