Installation

Docker

The image is built from a multi-stage Alpine/musl Dockerfile, kept small on purpose:

docker run -p 8108:8108 -v tachyon-data:/data adikeshri/tachyon

• Exposes port 8108 (the HTTP API).
• Data is written under /data inside the container — mount a volume there so it survives restarts.
• The image's HEALTHCHECK runs tachyon --healthcheck, which pings a locally running instance and exits, rather than depending on curl or wget being present in the image.

From source

Prefer a native binary? Build one from source with Cargo:

git clone https://github.com/adikeshri/tachyon
cd tachyon
cargo build --release
./target/release/tachyon --data-dir ./data

This requires a recent stable Rust toolchain. Configuration is entirely CLI flags and environment variables — no config file to manage — listed in full on the Configuration page.

Verifying it's running

curl localhost:8108/health

A running instance also serves interactive API documentation (Swagger UI) at /docs and the raw OpenAPI schema at /api-docs/openapi.json — useful for exploring the API directly against your own instance, distinct from this website's /docs and /api sections.