Sometimes you just need to run something on your local machine. This is of course not advised for production purposes, but every once in a while, it can be useful to run the full build pipeline on your own machine. MonkeyCI makes this possible, as long as you either have Docker or Podman on your machine.

First of all, you need to install the command-line interface. After that, open up a command shell and go to your repository directory (the one where .monkeyci/ is located). Then invoke the build command:

$ monkeyci build

There are of course many parameters you can customize. But more on that later! You can start by asking for help:

$ monkeyci build --help

Needless to say, we advise to use this feature sparingly and certainly not for production purposes! You really wouldn't want to wipe that precious production database by accident...