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Astralis Quick Start Guide

This guide will help you get Astralis running on your computer in minutes using a complete demo project with sample data.

Looking to deploy Astralis to your own infrastructure? Check out our Basic Deployment guides for development environments, or Production Deployment guides for enterprise setups.

Prerequisites

For this guide you will need:

Download and install Astralis

You can easily download and install the Astralis demo using uv. Run the following commands to get started:

pip3 install uv
uv venv
uv pip install ethyca-fides

Deploy the Astralis sample project

By default, Astralis ships with a small project belonging to a fictional e-commerce store. Running the deploy up command builds an Astralis project with all you need to run your first Data Subject Request against real databases.

uv run fides deploy up

If running fides deploy as part of a local fides development environment, refer to the local documentation instead.

Exploring the sample project

When your deployment finishes, a welcome screen will explain the key components of Astralis and the sample Cookie House store.

If your browser does not open automatically, you should navigate to http://localhost:3000.

The project contains:

  • The Astralis Control admin UI for managing privacy requests
  • The Astralis Privacy Center for submitting requests
  • The sample Cookie House eCommerce site for testing
  • A DSR Directory on your computer to view results

Run your first Privacy Access Request

Navigate to the Astralis Privacy Center, type in the email address for the sample user (jane@example.com), and submit the request.

Then, navigate to the Astralis Admin UI to review the pending privacy request.

Approve the request, and review the resulting package!

Next steps

Congratulations! You've just run an entire privacy request in under 5 minutes! Astralis offers many more tools to help take control of your data privacy.

Continue your journey:

AstralisLearning Paths