Quick Start Tyk Gateway

Last updated: Jun 16, 2025

Introduction

New to Tyk Gateway? On this page you’ll get started with the basics - install Tyk and test it live in less than 2 minutes.

We recommend Tyk Gateway docker compose as the quickest way to get started. If you want to deploy it in a specific platform check our installation options page.

Step 1 - Clone the docker-compose repository

git clone https://github.com/TykTechnologies/tyk-gateway-docker

Step 2 - Change to the new directory

cd tyk-gateway-docker

Step 3 - Deploy Tyk Gateway and Redis

docker-compose up

You can also run this in detached mode using the -d flag:

docker-compose up -d

Congratulations, you’re done!!!

Your Tyk Gateway is now configured and ready to use. Confirm this by checking against the ‘hello’ endpoint:

curl localhost:8080/hello

The output should be similar to that shown below:

{"status": "pass", "version": "v5.1", "description": "Tyk GW"}