Installing an Open Source Time Series Platform
For testing InfluxDB and its graphical user interface, Chronograf I'm using Docker images for easy deployment. For this post I assume you have worked with Docker before.
In this setup, InfluxDB and Chronograf will share an internal docker network to exchange data.
- InfluxDB can be accessed e.g. by ThingWorx via its exposed port 8086.
- Chronograf can be accessed to administrative purposes via its port 8888.
The following commands can be used to create a InfluxDB environment.
Pull images
sudo docker pull influxdb:latest
sudo docker pull chronograf:latest
Create a virtual network
sudo docker network create influxdb
Start the containers
sudo docker run -d --name=influxdb -p 8086:8086 --net=influxdb --restart=always influxdb
sudo docker run -d --name=chronograf -p 8888:8888 --net=influxdb --restart=always chronograf --influxdb-url=http://influxdb:8086
InfluxDB should now be reachable and will also restart automatically when Docker (or the Operating System) are restarted.
