ThingsBoard single docker images

This project provides the build for the ThingsBoard single docker images.

• thingsboard/tb - single instance of ThingsBoard with embedded HSQLDB database.
• thingsboard/tb-postgres - single instance of ThingsBoard with PostgreSQL database.
• thingsboard/tb-cassandra - single instance of ThingsBoard with Hybrid PostgreSQL (entities) and Cassandra (timeseries) database.

Running

Before starting Docker container run following command to create a directory for storing data and change its owner to docker container user. To be able to change user, chown command is used, which requires sudo permissions (command will request password for a sudo access):

$ mkdir -p ~/.mytb-data && sudo chown -R 799:799 ~/.mytb-data

NOTE: replace directory ~/.mytb-data with directory you're planning to use on container creation.

In this example thingsboard/tb image will be used. You can choose any other images with different databases (see above). Execute the following command to run this docker directly:

$ docker run -it -p 9090:9090 -p 1883:1883 -p 5683:5683/udp -p 5685:5685/udp -p 5686:5686/udp -v ~/.mytb-data:/data --name mytb thingsboard/tb

Where:

• docker run - run this container
• -it - attach a terminal session with current ThingsBoard process output
• -p 9090:9090 - connect local port 9090 to exposed internal HTTP port 9090
• -p 1883:1883 - connect local port 1883 to exposed internal MQTT port 1883
  
• -p 5683:5683 - connect local port 5683 to exposed internal COAP port 5683
• -p 5685:5685 - connect local port 5685 to exposed internal COAP port 5685 (lwm2m)
• -p 5686:5686 - connect local port 5686 to exposed internal COAPS port 5686 (lwm2m)
• -v ~/.mytb-data:/data - mounts the host's dir ~/.mytb-data to ThingsBoard DataBase data directory
• --name mytb - friendly local name of this machine
• thingsboard/tb - docker image, can be also thingsboard/tb-postgres or thingsboard/tb-cassandra

NOTE: Windows users should use docker managed volume instead of host's dir. Create docker volume (for ex. mytb-data) before executing docker run command:

$ docker volume create mytb-data

After you can execute docker run command using mytb-data volume instead of ~/.mytb-data. In order to get access to necessary resources from external IP/Host on Windows machine, please execute the following commands:

$ VBoxManage controlvm "default" natpf1 "tcp-port9090,tcp,,9090,,9090"  
$ VBoxManage controlvm "default" natpf1 "tcp-port1883,tcp,,1883,,1883"
$ VBoxManage controlvm "default" natpf1 "tcp-port5683,tcp,,5683,,5683"
$ VBoxManage controlvm "default" natpf1 "tcp-port5683,tcp,,5685,,5685"
$ VBoxManage controlvm "default" natpf1 "tcp-port5683,tcp,,5686,,5686"

After executing docker run command you can open http://{your-host-ip}:9090 in you browser (for ex. http://localhost:9090). You should see ThingsBoard login page. Use the following default credentials:

• System Administrator: sysadmin@thingsboard.org / sysadmin
• Tenant Administrator: tenant@thingsboard.org / tenant
• Customer User: customer@thingsboard.org / customer

You can always change passwords for each account in account profile page.

You can detach from session terminal with Ctrl-p Ctrl-q - the container will keep running in the background.

To reattach to the terminal (to see ThingsBoard logs) run:

$ docker attach mytb

To stop the container:

$ docker stop mytb

To start the container:

$ docker start mytb

Upgrading

In order to update to the latest image, execute the following commands:

$ docker pull thingsboard/tb
$ docker stop mytb
$ docker run -it -v ~/.mytb-data:/data --rm thingsboard/tb upgrade-tb.sh
$ docker start mytb

NOTE: if you use different database change image name in all commands from thingsboard/tb to thingsboard/tb-postgres or thingsboard/tb-cassandra correspondingly.

NOTE: replace host's directory ~/.mytb-data with directory used during container creation.