Setting Up Concourse with external url

Question

Currently following the Concourse Tutorial (https://concoursetutorial.com/), but I am stuck at the Deploy Concourse using Docker Compose step. As indicated in the docs, "You need to set the external url env variable inside the docker-compose.yml"

- CONCOURSE_EXTERNAL_URL
+ CONCOURSE_EXTERNAL_URL=http://{{my-server}}:8080

What I tried: replacing {{my-server}} with localhost but putting http://localhost:8080 in my browser does not work; site cannot be reached error.

What do I replace {{my-server}} with?

Answer 1

Check out the docker-compose on https://concourse-ci.org. The environment section has a slightly different format. I'm not sure if S&W tutorial uses some legacy format or if it's simply broken, but you can take my word that the one on concourse-ci.org will work without any modification.

So give https://concourse-ci.org/quick-start.html a try (it's also a docker-compose-based instance).