Hi everyone. Im currently doing product
# spicedbe
ErwinM
02/17/2026, 12:50 PMHi everyone. Im currently doing product investigation for Zanzibar systems. Currently have both a Spicedb and a playground running via docker locally, but I cant find how to configure the playground to connect to my local Spicedb instance. Is this possible?
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yetitwo
02/17/2026, 1:27 PMno - the playground runs an in-browser WASM version of SpiceDB. its current form is intended to be a learning environment rather than a GUI for SpiceDB.
what were you hoping to get out of hooking the playground up to a SpiceDB instance? I wanna get a sense of whether there's a gap in our dev tooling.
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ErwinM
02/17/2026, 1:29 PMJust to use it as a way for our developers to understand how the product works without having to go into CLI right away
ErwinM
02/17/2026, 1:30 PMThe playground doesnt tell us how the schema looks like on database level
ErwinM
02/17/2026, 1:51 PMAlso its partly because I made the same setup with openfga therefor I was wondering if I could reach the same setup. Its totally fine to just include the cli instead since we want to learn how that works anyway
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yetitwo
02/17/2026, 1:54 PMwhat do you mean by that?
yetitwo
02/17/2026, 1:55 PM> Its totally fine to just include the cli instead
there is a zed CLI in the playground. is that what you're referring to?
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ErwinM
02/17/2026, 2:00 PMNo a docker image in order to talk with a local instance of spicedb
ErwinM
02/17/2026, 2:01 PMI was interested to know how a change in schema or creating tuples looks like in postgres
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yetitwo
02/17/2026, 2:01 PMjust out of curiosity or?
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ErwinM
02/17/2026, 2:01 PMYeah
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yetitwo
02/17/2026, 2:01 PMgotcha, makes sense
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ErwinM
02/17/2026, 2:01 PMJust for learning purpose
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yetitwo
02/17/2026, 2:02 PMi was gonna say that ideally that's not something that you have to be aware of
yetitwo
02/17/2026, 2:02 PMand that modifying rows in the underlying datastore can have unintended effects because of the manual MVCC work that SpiceDB does to allow you to read the state of the datastore at a particular revision
yetitwo
02/17/2026, 2:02 PMbut curiosity makes sense
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ErwinM
02/17/2026, 2:03 PMI get it but not knowing how the database works is unacceptable if we want to seriously consider oss
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yetitwo
02/17/2026, 2:03 PMkk
yetitwo
02/17/2026, 2:06 PMlmk if you have any questions as y'all are evaluating
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ErwinM
02/17/2026, 2:07 PMThanks, only annoying part is discord is blocked on our network so I have to use my phone to ask support here
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yetitwo
02/17/2026, 2:22 PMoh that's obnoxious -_-
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