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 # swh-docker-dev
 
 [Work in progress]
 
 This repo contains Dockerfiles to allow developers to run a small
 Software Heritage instance on their development computer.
 
 The end goal is to smooth the contributors/developers workflow. Focus
 on coding, not configuring!
 
 ## How to use
 
 ```
 make run
 ```
 
 This will build docker images and run them using docker-compose.
 
 Press Ctrl-C when you want to stop it.
 
 ## Details
 
 This runs the following services on their respectively standard ports:
 
 - swh-objstorage
 
-- a `softwareheritage` instance db
+- a `softwareheritage` instance db that stores the Merkle DAG.
 
 - swh-storage (plugged to communicate with the objstorage and the db)
 
 That means, you can start doing the ingestion using those services
 using the same setup described in the getting-started [1].
 
 [1] https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/getting-started.html#step-4-ingest-repositories