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Documentation for installation and configuration of ThingsBoard IoT Platform.

ThingsBoard Professional Edition cluster setup with Docker Compose guide

This guide will help you to setup ThingsBoard in cluster mode with Docker Compose. For this purpose, we will use docker container images available on Docker Hub.

Prerequisites

ThingsBoard Microservices are running in dockerized environment. Before starting please make sure Docker CE and Docker Compose are installed in your system.

Step 1. Checkout all ThingsBoard PE Images

Please checkout all ThingsBoard PE Images from Docker Hub. You will need to open all verified images and click on “Proceed to checkout” to accept ThingsBoard PE license agreement.

Listing all images mandatory for checkout for your convenience below:

image

Populate basic information about yourself and click “Get Content”

image

Step 2. Pull ThingsBoard PE Images

Make sure your have logged in to docker hub using command line.

docker pull store/thingsboard/tb-pe-node:3.0.1PE
docker pull store/thingsboard/tb-pe-web-ui:3.0.1PE
docker pull store/thingsboard/tb-pe-web-report:3.0.1PE
docker pull store/thingsboard/tb-pe-js-executor:3.0.1PE
docker pull store/thingsboard/tb-pe-http-transport:3.0.1PE
docker pull store/thingsboard/tb-pe-mqtt-transport:3.0.1PE
docker pull store/thingsboard/tb-pe-coap-transport:3.0.1PE

Step 3. Clone ThingsBoard PE Docker Compose scripts

git clone https://github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard-pe-docker-compose.git tb-pe-docker-compose

Step 4. Obtain your license key

We assume you have already chosen your subscription plan or decided to purchase a perpetual license. If not, please navigate to pricing page to select the best license option for your case and get your license. See How-to get pay-as-you-go subscription or How-to get perpetual license for more details.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Make sure you have purchased a license key for at least two instances of ThingsBoard PE. Otherwise you need to modify local copy of docker-compose.yml to use only one ThingsBoard instance. We will reference the license key you have obtained during this step as PUT_YOUR_LICENSE_SECRET_HERE later in this guide.

Step 5. Configure your license key

cd tb-pe-docker-compose
nano tb-node.env

and put the license secret parameter

# ThingsBoard server configuration

ZOOKEEPER_ENABLED=true
...

TB_LICENSE_SECRET=PUT_YOUR_LICENSE_SECRET_HERE

Step 6. Review the architecture page

Starting ThingsBoard v2.2, it is possible to install ThingsBoard cluster using new microservices architecture and docker containers. See microservices architecture page for more details.

Step 7. Configure ThingsBoard database

Before performing initial installation you can configure the type of database to be used with ThingsBoard. In order to set database type change the value of DATABASE variable in .env file to one of the following:

NOTE: According to the database type corresponding docker service will be deployed (see docker-compose.postgres.yml, docker-compose.hybrid.yml for details).

Step 8. Choose ThingsBoard queue service

ThingsBoard is able to use various messaging systems/brokers for storing the messages and communication between ThingsBoard services. How to choose the right queue implementation?

See corresponding architecture page and rule engine page for more details.

Kafka (recommended for on-prem, production installations)
AWS SQS (managed service from AWS)
Google Pub/Sub (managed service from Google)
Azure Service Bus (managed service from Azure)
RabbitMQ (for small on-prem installations)

Apache Kafka is an open-source stream-processing software platform.

Configure ThingsBoard environment file:

sudo nano .env

Check following line:

TB_QUEUE_TYPE=kafka

AWS SQS Configuration

To access AWS SQS service, you first need to create an AWS account.

To work with AWS SQS service you will need to create your next credentials using this instruction:

  • Access key ID
  • Secret access key

Configure ThingsBoard environment file:

sudo nano .env

Check following line:**

TB_QUEUE_TYPE=aws-sqs

Configure AWS SQS environment file for ThingsBoard queue service:

sudo nano queue-aws-sqs.env

Don’t forget to replace “YOUR_KEY”, “YOUR_SECRET” with your real AWS SQS IAM user credentials and “YOUR_REGION” with your real AWS SQS account region:

TB_QUEUE_TYPE=aws-sqs
TB_QUEUE_AWS_SQS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=YOUR_KEY
TB_QUEUE_AWS_SQS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=YOUR_SECRET
TB_QUEUE_AWS_SQS_REGION=YOUR_REGION

Google Pub/Sub Configuration

To access Pub/Sub service, you first need to create an Google cloud account.

To work with Pub/Sub service you will need to create a project using this instruction.

Create service account credentials with the role “Editor” or “Admin” using this instruction, and save json file with your service account credentials step 9 here.

Configure ThingsBoard environment file:

sudo nano .env

Check following line:**

TB_QUEUE_TYPE=pubsub

Configure Pub/Sub environment file for ThingsBoard queue service:

sudo nano queue-pubsub.env

Don’t forget to replace “YOUR_PROJECT_ID”, “YOUR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT” with your real Pub/Sub project id, and service account (it is whole data from json file):

TB_QUEUE_TYPE=pubsub
TB_QUEUE_PUBSUB_PROJECT_ID=YOUR_PROJECT_ID
TB_QUEUE_PUBSUB_SERVICE_ACCOUNT=YOUR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT

Azure Service Bus Configuration

To access Azure Service Bus, you first need to create an Azure account.

To work with Service Bus service you will need to create a Service Bus Namespace using this instruction.

Create Shared Access Signature using this instruction.

Configure ThingsBoard environment file:

sudo nano .env

Check following line:**

TB_QUEUE_TYPE=service-bus

Configure Service Bus environment file for ThingsBoard queue service:

sudo nano queue-service-bus.env

Don’t forget to replace “YOUR_NAMESPACE_NAME” with your real Service Bus namespace name, and “YOUR_SAS_KEY_NAME”, “YOUR_SAS_KEY” with your real Service Bus credentials. Note: “YOUR_SAS_KEY_NAME” it is “SAS Policy”, “YOUR_SAS_KEY” it is “SAS Policy Primary Key”:

TB_QUEUE_TYPE=service-bus
TB_QUEUE_SERVICE_BUS_NAMESPACE_NAME=YOUR_NAMESPACE_NAME
TB_QUEUE_SERVICE_BUS_SAS_KEY_NAME=YOUR_SAS_KEY_NAME
TB_QUEUE_SERVICE_BUS_SAS_KEY=YOUR_SAS_KEY

For installing RabbitMQ use this instruction.

Configure ThingsBoard environment file:

sudo nano .env

Check following line:**

TB_QUEUE_TYPE=rabbitmq

Configure RabbitMQ environment file for ThingsBoard queue service:

sudo nano queue-rabbitmq.env

Don’t forget to replace “YOUR_USERNAME” and “YOUR_PASSWORD” with your real user credentials, “localhost” and “5672” with your real RabbitMQ host and port:

TB_QUEUE_TYPE=rabbitmq
TB_QUEUE_RABBIT_MQ_HOST=localhost
TB_QUEUE_RABBIT_MQ_PORT=5672
TB_QUEUE_RABBIT_MQ_USERNAME=YOUR_USERNAME
TB_QUEUE_RABBIT_MQ_PASSWORD=YOUR_PASSWORD

Step 9. Running

Execute the following command to create log folders for the services and chown of these folders to the docker container users. To be able to change user, chown command is used, which requires sudo permissions (script will request password for a sudo access):

$ ./docker-create-log-folders.sh

Execute the following command to run installation:

$ ./docker-install-tb.sh --loadDemo

Where:

Execute the following command to start services:

$ ./docker-start-services.sh

After a while when all services will be successfully started you can open http://{your-host-ip} in you browser (for ex. http://localhost). You should see ThingsBoard login page.

Use the following default credentials:

If you installed DataBase with demo data (using --loadDemo flag) you can also use the following credentials:

In case of any issues you can examine service logs for errors. For example to see ThingsBoard node logs execute the following command:

$ docker-compose logs -f tb-core1 tb-rule-engine1

Or use docker-compose ps to see the state of all the containers. Use docker-compose logs --f to inspect the logs of all running services. See docker-compose logs command reference for details.

Execute the following command to stop services:

$ ./docker-stop-services.sh

Execute the following command to stop and completely remove deployed docker containers:

$ ./docker-remove-services.sh

Execute the following command to update particular or all services (pull newer docker image and rebuild container):

$ ./docker-update-service.sh [SERVICE...]

Where:

Upgrading

In case when database upgrade is needed, execute the following commands:

$ ./docker-stop-services.sh
$ ./docker-upgrade-tb.sh --fromVersion=[FROM_VERSION]
$ ./docker-start-services.sh

Where:

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