This guide will help you to setup ThingsBoard in cluster mode in Google Cloude Platform.
ThingsBoard Microservices run on the Kubernetes cluster. You need to install a gcloud, kops, terraform (v0.11+) and the kubectl (v1.16+).
gcloud - for manage GCP infrastructure.
kops - for create and manage kubernetes cluster.
terraform - for create and manage cloud infrastructure in GCP.
You can choose any other available Kubernetes cluster deployment solutions.
cd ./gcp
Also you need access to GCP.
To login, please execute the following command:
gcloud auth application-default login
Get your project id:
gcloud projects list
To set your project for k8s cluster, please execute following command:
gcloud config set project $your_project_id
To create a service account, a storage bucket and a rules for a k8s cluster, please create variables file:
cat << EOF > terraform.tfvars
project = "$your_project_id"
svca_name = "$name_for_new_service_account"
bucket_name = "$bucket_name_for_kops"
vpc_name = "$vpc_name"
EOF
To initialize terraform states, please execute the following command:
terraform init
To review what infrastructure will be created, please execute the following command:
terraform plan
To create infrastructure for the k8s cluster, please execute the following command:
terraform apply
In output of this command you will have your bucket name and service account email.
To get your service account id, email, name with gcloud, please execute the following command:
gcloud iam service-accounts list
To create a new json key for your service account, please execute the following command:
gcloud iam service-accounts keys create --iam-account $serviceAccountEMAIL kops-cluster-gcp-key.json
To export a JSON file content of the created service account json key, please execute the following command:
export GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS=$(cat ./kops-cluster-gcp-key.json)
To create the k8s cluster, please execute the following commands:
PROJECT=$your_project_id
export KOPS_FEATURE_FLAGS=AlphaAllowGCE # to unlock the GCE features
kops create cluster kops-example-dev.k8s.local --zones=us-central1-a,us-central1-b,us-central1-c --gce-service-account $serviceAccountEMAIL --vpc $vpc_name --state gs://$bucket_name_for_kops/ --project=${PROJECT} --kubernetes-version=1.18.0 --node-count 3 --node-size n2-standard-4
If you want a high-available cluster, please add this option to the last command:
--master-count 3
--master-zones=us-central1-a,us-central1-b,us-central1-c
--node-count 6
--node-size n2-standard-4
To get the k8s cluster name from the bucket, please execute following command:
kops get cluster --state gs://$bucket_name_for_kops/
To deploy the cluster to the gcp infrastructure, please execute following command:
kops update cluster kops-example-dev.k8s.local --state gs://$bucket_name_for_kops/ --yes
To check status of your cluster, please execute following command:
kops validate cluster --wait 10m --state gs://$bucket_name_for_kops/
After that you can check your nodes:
kubectl get ndoes
If you want to export a kubectl config, please execute following command:
kops export kubecfg kops-example-dev.k8s.local
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.
Please go to back in root folder cd ../.
In .env file set the value of PLATFORM field to gcp.
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:
postgres - use PostgreSQL database;hybrid - use PostgreSQL for entities database and Cassandra for timeseries database;NOTE: According to the database type corresponding kubernetes resources will be deployed (see basic/postgres.yml or high-availability/postgres-ha.yaml for postgres with replication, common/cassandra.yml for details).
Before performing initial installation you can configure the type of ThingsBoard deployment.
In order to set deployment type change the value of DEPLOYMENT_TYPE variable in .env file to one of the following:
basic - startup with a single instance of Zookeeper, Kafka and Redis;high-availability - startup with Zookeeper, Kafka, and Redis in cluster modes;NOTE: According to the deployment type corresponding kubernetes resources will be deployed (see the content of the directories basic and high-availability for details).
If you selected cassandra as DATABASE you can also configure the number of Cassandra nodes (StatefulSet.spec.replicas property in common/cassandra.yml config file) and the CASSANDRA_REPLICATION_FACTOR in .env file.
It is recommended to have 3 Cassandra nodes with CASSANDRA_REPLICATION_FACTOR equal to 1.
NOTE: If you want to configure CASSANDRA_REPLICATION_FACTOR please read Cassandra documentation first.
Also, to run PostgreSQL in high-availability deployment mode you’ll need to install helm.
Make sure your have logged in to docker hub using command line. To upload Docker credentials, please execute next command:
./k8s-upload-docker-credentials.sh
Or you can use the following command:
kubectl create secret docker-registry regcred --docker-server=https://index.docker.io/v1/ --docker-username=$YOUR_USERNAME --docker-password=$YOUR_PASSWORD --docker-email=$YOUR_EMAIL
Execute the following command to run installation:
./k8s-install-tb.sh --loadDemo
Where:
--loadDemo - optional argument. Whether to load additional demo data.Execute the following command to deploy third-party resources:
./k8s-deploy-thirdparty.sh
Type ‘yes’ when prompted, if you are running ThingsBoard in high-availability DEPLOYMENT_TYPE for the first time or don’t have configured Redis cluster.
Execute the following command to deploy ThingsBoard resources:
./k8s-deploy-resources.sh
After a while when all resources will be successfully started you can open ThingsBoard web interface in your browser using dns name of the load balancer.
You can see DNS name of the loadbalancer using command:
kubectl get ingress -oyaml
Or you can see this name on the AWS ELB page.
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:
1) Get the list of the running tb-node pods:
kubectl get pods -l app=tb-node
2) Fetch logs of the tb-node pod:
kubectl logs -f [tb-node-pod-name]
Where:
tb-node-pod-name - tb-node pod name obtained from the list of the running tb-node pods.Or use kubectl get pods to see the state of all the pods.
Or use kubectl get services to see the state of all the services.
Or use kubectl get deployments to see the state of all the deployments.
See kubectl Cheat Sheet command reference for details.
Execute the following command to delete all ThingsBoard microservices:
./k8s-delete-resources.sh
Execute the following command to delete all third-party microservices:
./k8s-delete-thirdparty.sh
Execute the following command to delete all resources (including database):
./k8s-delete-all.sh
To destroy the k8s cluster and GCP resources, please execute following commands:
kops delete cluster kops-example-dev.k8s.local --state gs://$bucket_name_for_kops/ --yes
export GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS=""
terraform destroy
In case when database upgrade is needed, execute the following commands:
./k8s-delete-resources.sh
./k8s-upgrade-tb.sh --fromVersion=[FROM_VERSION]
./k8s-deploy-resources.sh
Where:
FROM_VERSION - from which version upgrade should be started. See Upgrade Instructions for valid fromVersion values.入门指南 - 这些指南提供了ThingsBoard主要功能的快速概述。
设备连接 - 了解如何根据您的连接方式或解决方案连接设备。
数据看板 - 这些指南包含有关如何配置复杂的ThingsBoard仪表板的说明。
数据处理 - 了解如何使用ThingsBoard规则引擎。
数据分析 - 了解如何使用规则引擎执行基本的分析任务。
硬件样品 - 了解如何将各种硬件平台连接到ThingsBoard。
高级功能 - 了解高级ThingsBoard功能。
开发指南 - 了解ThingsBoard中的贡献和开发。