Hi All! Could you please help me with contract publishing to a Pact Broker? I was able to run Pact Broker locally, I used docker image with my local DB, and now I can see UI in my browser. I followed these instructions. And I don’t use pactflow, just pact broker. Now I’d like to try to publish a contract to my Pact Broker and I am confused here, what I should do next? I see that I can use a CLI client with a docker image. But I don’t understand all parameters here 😞 and from what directory I should run the command. For example, I am trying to run the following command from my home directory:

docker run --rm  \
  -e PACT_BROKER_BASE_URL=<http://localhost:9292>  \
  pactfoundation/pact-cli:latest \
  publish \
  /Users/tatiana/projects/project_name/contract-tests/pacts \
  --consumer-app-version fake-git-sha-for-demo-$(date +%s)

and I am getting the error:

Specified pact file '/Users/tatiana/projects/project_name/contract-tests/pacts' does not exist. This sometimes indicates one of the arguments has been specified with the wrong name and has been incorrectly identified as a file path.

So, my questions: 1. Where should I run the docker command from? 2.

PACT_BROKER_USERNAME

and

PACT_BROKER_PASSWORD

are mandatory or they can be ignored? I didn’t set up these env variables when I was running

pactfoundation/pact-broker

image. Please point a right direction for me 🙏

You need to volume mount your drive into the docker container as per the instructions in the linked docker readme.

Thank you very much. I was able to publish and verify the contract locally with pact broker 👍

Happy days rockon