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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.
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.
Docker Compose flavor procedure can be found here : https://www.influxdata.com/blog/tips-for-running-the-tick-stack-using-docker/