Install ThingsBoard IoT Gateway using Docker.

• Prerequisites
• Running
• Running (with ENV variables)
• Detaching, stop and start commands
• Gateway configuration
• Upgrading
• Build local docker image

This guide will help you to install and start ThingsBoard Gateway using Docker on Linux or Mac OS.

Prerequisites

• Install Docker CE

Running

Execute the following command to run this docker directly:

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docker run -it -v ~/.tb-gateway/logs:/thingsboard_gateway/logs -v ~/.tb-gateway/extensions:/thingsboard_gateway/extensions -v ~/.tb-gateway/config:/thingsboard_gateway/config --name tb-gateway --restart always thingsboard/tb-gateway

Where:

• docker run - run this container
• -it - attach a terminal session with current Gateway process output
• -v ~/.tb-gateway/config:/thingsboard_gateway/config - mounts the host’s dir ~/.tb-gateway/config to Gateway config directory
• -v ~/.tb-gateway/extensions:/thingsboard_gateway/extensions - mounts the host’s dir ~/.tb-gateway/extensions to Gateway extensions directory
• -v ~/.tb-gateway/logs:/thingsboard_gateway/logs - mounts the host’s dir ~/.tb-gateway/logs to Gateway logs directory
• --name tb-gateway - friendly local name of this machine
• --restart always - automatically start ThingsBoard in case of system reboot and restart in case of failure.
• thingsboard/tb-gateway - docker image

Running (with ENV variables)

Execute the following command to run docker container with ENV variables:

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docker run -it -e host=thingsboard.cloud -e port=1883 -e accessToken=ACCESS_TOKEN -v ~/.tb-gateway/logs:/thingsboard_gateway/logs -v ~/.tb-gateway/extensions:/thingsboard_gateway/extensions -v ~/.tb-gateway/config:/thingsboard_gateway/config --name tb-gateway --restart always thingsboard/tb-gateway

Available ENV variables:

Detaching, stop and start commands

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 Gateway logs) run:

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docker attach tb-gateway

To stop the container:

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docker stop tb-gateway

To start the container:

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docker start tb-gateway

Gateway configuration

Stop the container:

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docker stop tb-gateway

Configure gateway to work with your instance of ThingsBoard, using this guide:

Start the container after made changes:

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docker start tb-gateway

Upgrading

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

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docker pull thingsboard/tb-gateway
docker stop tb-gateway
docker rm tb-gateway
docker run -it -v ~/.tb-gateway/logs:/var/log/thingsboard-gateway -v ~/.tb-gateway/extensions:/var/lib/thingsboard_gateway/extensions -v ~/.tb-gateway/config:/thingsboard-gateway/config --name tb-gateway --restart always thingsboard/tb-gateway

Build local docker image

In order to build local docker image, follow the next steps:

1. Copy thingsboard_gateway/ folder to docker/ folder, so the final view of the directory structure will look like:

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    /thingsboard-gateway/docker
            thingsboard_gateway/
            docker-compose.yml
            Dockerfile
            LICENSE
            setup.py
            requirements.txt
   

2. From project root folder execute the following command:

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    docker build -t local-gateway docker