Why is the kickstart not running when I spin up the docker container?

[mark.robustelli]

When trying to create a kickstart, it's not getting used when i run docker compose. How can I fix it?

[mark.robustelli]

First check out the information you are getting from the docker log. Look at the log from the spin up and search for "kickstart." Was the container able to find the kickstart.json file? (In this case yes.)

If the kickstart file was found, continue searching through the log for a potential error in the running of the kickstart. You might see something like.

fusionauth-1  | 2025-07-02 05:14:05.177 PM ERROR io.fusionauth.api.service.system.kickstart.KickstartRunner - Failed to execute request to [PATCH][/api/user/registration/000000000001] Status [404]
fusionauth-1  | Request body:
fusionauth-1  | {
fusionauth-1  |   "registration" : {
fusionauth-1  |     "applicationId" : "e72dca1d-626c-4f4b-8f36-b7c8c2c0af33"
fusionauth-1  |   }
fusionauth-1  | }
fusionauth-1  | 2025-07-02 05:14:05.177 PM ERROR io.fusionauth.api.service.system.kickstart.KickstartRunner - Error response:
fusionauth-1  | null

This will let you know there was an error and you need to resolve it. In this specific case, The PATCH request should have been a POST. Once that was changed, the kickstart ran fine.