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Here is the list of commands, that can be used to quickly install ThingsBoard Edge on RHEL/CentOS 7/8 and connect to the server.

Prerequisites

Before continue to installation execute the following commands in order to install necessary tools:

sudo yum install -y nano wget
sudo yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

Install Java 11 (OpenJDK)

ThingsBoard service is running on Java 11. Follow these instructions to install OpenJDK 11:

sudo yum install java-11-openjdk
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Please don't forget to configure your operating system to use OpenJDK 11 by default. You can configure which version is the default using the following command:

sudo update-alternatives --config java
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You can check the installation using the following command:

java -version
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Expected command output is:

openjdk version "11.0.xx"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (...)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build ...)

Configure PostgreSQL

ThingsBoard Edge uses PostgreSQL database as a local storage. Instructions listed below will help you to install PostgreSQL.

# Update your system
sudo yum update
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For CentOS 7:

# Install the repository RPM (for CentOS 7):
sudo yum -y install https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/EL-7-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-repo-latest.noarch.rpm
# Install packages
sudo yum -y install epel-release yum-utils
sudo yum-config-manager --enable pgdg15
sudo yum install postgresql15-server postgresql15
# Initialize your PostgreSQL DB
sudo /usr/pgsql-15/bin/postgresql-15-setup initdb
sudo systemctl start postgresql-15
# Optional: Configure PostgreSQL to start on boot
sudo systemctl enable --now postgresql-15

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For CentOS 8:

# Install the repository RPM (for CentOS 8):
sudo yum -y install https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/EL-8-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-repo-latest.noarch.rpm
# Install packages
sudo dnf -qy module disable postgresql
sudo dnf -y install postgresql15 postgresql15-server
# Initialize your PostgreSQL DB
sudo /usr/pgsql-15/bin/postgresql-15-setup initdb
sudo systemctl start postgresql-15
# Optional: Configure PostgreSQL to start on boot
sudo systemctl enable --now postgresql-15

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Once PostgreSQL is installed you may want to create a new user or set the password for the main user. The instructions below will help to set the password for main PostgreSQL user:

sudo su - postgres
psql
\password
\q

Then, press "Ctrl+D" to return to main user console.

After configuring the password, edit the pg_hba.conf to use MD5 authentication with the postgres user.

Edit pg_hba.conf file:

sudo nano /var/lib/pgsql/15/data/pg_hba.conf
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Locate the following lines:

# IPv4 local connections:
host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            ident

Replace ident with md5:

host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            md5

Finally, you should restart the PostgreSQL service to initialize the new configuration:

sudo systemctl restart postgresql-15.service
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Connect to the database to create ThingsBoard Edge DB:

psql -U postgres -d postgres -h 127.0.0.1 -W
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Execute create database statement:

CREATE DATABASE tb_edge;
\q
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ThingsBoard Edge service installation

Download installation package:

wget https://github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard-edge/releases/download/v${TB_EDGE_VERSION}/tb-edge-${TB_EDGE_VERSION}.rpm
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Go to the download repository and install ThingsBoard Edge service:

sudo rpm -Uvh tb-edge-${TB_EDGE_VERSION}.rpm
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Configure ThingsBoard Edge

To configure ThingsBoard Edge, you can use the following command to automatically update the configuration file with specific values:

sudo sh -c 'cat <<EOL >> /etc/tb-edge/conf/tb-edge.conf
export CLOUD_ROUTING_KEY=${CLOUD_ROUTING_KEY}
export CLOUD_ROUTING_SECRET=${CLOUD_ROUTING_SECRET}
export CLOUD_RPC_HOST=${BASE_URL}
export CLOUD_RPC_PORT=${CLOUD_RPC_PORT}
export CLOUD_RPC_SSL_ENABLED=${CLOUD_RPC_SSL_ENABLED}
EOL'
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[Optional] Database Configuration

In case you changed default PostgreSQL datasource settings (postgres/postgres) please update the configuration file (/etc/tb-edge/conf/tb-edge.conf) with your actual values:

sudo nano /etc/tb-edge/conf/tb-edge.conf
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Please update the following lines in your configuration file. Make sure to replace:

• Replace 'postgres' with your actual PostgreSQL username;
• Replace 'PUT_YOUR_POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD_HERE' with your actual PostgreSQL password.

export SPRING_DATASOURCE_URL=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/tb_edge
export SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME=postgres
export SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD=PUT_YOUR_POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD_HERE
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[Optional] Update bind ports

If ThingsBoard Edge is going to be running on the same machine where ThingsBoard server (cloud) is running, you'll need to update configuration parameters to avoid port collision between ThingsBoard server and ThingsBoard Edge.

Please execute the following command to update ThingsBoard Edge configuration file (/etc/tb-edge/conf/tb-edge.conf):

sudo sh -c 'cat <<EOL >> /etc/tb-edge/conf/tb-edge.conf
export HTTP_BIND_PORT=18080
export MQTT_BIND_PORT=11883
export COAP_BIND_PORT=15683
export LWM2M_ENABLED=false
export SNMP_ENABLED=false
EOL'
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Make sure that ports above (18080, 11883, 15683) are not used by any other application.

Run installation script

Once ThingsBoard Edge is installed and configured please execute the following install script:

sudo /usr/share/tb-edge/bin/install/install.sh
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Restart ThingsBoard Edge service

sudo service tb-edge restart
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Open ThingsBoard Edge UI

Once started, you will be able to open ThingsBoard Edge UI using the following link http://localhost:8080.

NOTE: Edge HTTP bind port update

Use next ThingsBoard Edge UI link http://localhost:18080 if you updated HTTP 8080 bind port to 18080.