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Getting started

A 5 minutes intro on how to create and account and start a sample generator as a spring boot application.

Sign-up​

Sign-in using your identity. In case of an enterprise environment your global administrators might need to approve you to hand over some details to us which comes down just to the email that is used as a single identifier and a notification target.

At this moment we support any Microsoft identity. In case of need you may create one here: https://signup.live.com/

Create an account​

Chose your account name. It needs to be globally unique.

You will be redirected to the account settings page where you can get:

  • The Sixpack API url
  • Your certificate
  • Your private key

Start a sample generator​

Clone our sample for spring boot

git clone https://github.com/sixpack-dev/sixpack-sample-java-spring.git

  • Download the Private key and Certificate via download buttons on the account settings page. The files will be named generator.pkey.pem and generator.cert.pem respectively. You may rename them as you wish.

  • Place the files in the folder /certs/ under the cloned repository

  • Open the repository in an IDE

  • Change the account name and maybe the Sixpack URL in the file MySypplier.java to match your account name

  • If necessary, configure the JDK to be used (should be above 17), and other typical java initial configurations for any imported java project

  • Run the spring boot application called MyApp

  • Your data generator now should be successfully connected to the Sixpack platform and already pre-generate some datasets

Play around​

You can play around, try to request some data and see how it works and read further here...