Hatchet Lite Deployment
To get up and running quickly, you can deploy via the hatchet-lite image. This image is designed for development and low-volume use-cases.
Prerequisites
This deployment requires Docker installed locally to work.
Getting Hatchet Lite Running
The easiest way to get Hatchet Lite running is via the Hatchet CLI. Simply run the following command:
hatchet server startFor local development you can add --disable-auth to run the
hatchet-lite-dev image, which has authentication compiled out. Workers still
authenticate over gRPC with the fixed worker token the dev image ships
(viewable from the dashboard banner). See Running Hatchet
Locally
for details.
Accessing Hatchet Lite
Once the Hatchet Lite instance is running, you can access the Hatchet Lite UI at http://localhost:8888.
By default, a user is created with the following credentials:
Email: admin@example.com
Password: Admin123!!After logging in, follow the steps in the UI to create your first tenant and run your first workflow!
To serve the dashboard behind a reverse proxy under a URL subpath, set
LITE_FRONTEND_BASE_PATH (for example /hatchet/) and configure your proxy
as described in Serving Hatchet under a URL
subpath.
Last updated on August 13, 2026