Your Odoo lab: Online, Odoo.sh and local

Three kinds of lab: an Odoo Online trial for functional work, a local source or Docker install for development, and Odoo.sh for the partner workflow.

In this lesson

Three labs, three purposes
What to install locally
Lab hygiene

Key points

Odoo Online trial for functional practice on the latest version
Local source or Docker for code, logs and SQL
Odoo 20: Python 3.12+, PostgreSQL 16+; Odoo 19: Python 3.10+
Never practise on production; neutralise copies; keep everything in Git

Real-world example

Tobi learned Inventory on an Online trial and Python on his laptop's Docker lab. On his first contract he copied the client's Odoo.sh production into a staging branch to reproduce a bug; because staging is neutralised, his tests didn't email 4,000 customers. His Git repository from the academy already had a scaffolded module, which he adapted in an afternoon.

Questions and answers

Where do custom modules go in the Docker Compose lab above?

The ./addons folder mounted at /mnt/extra-addons.

Which PostgreSQL version does Odoo 20 require?

16 or newer.

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