Run through Docker

Preface

This part of the documentation covers the installation of Kotori and the whole software stack for telemetry data acquisition, processing and visualization on systems running Docker.

The first step to using any software package is getting it properly installed. Please read this section carefully.

After successfully installing the software, you might want to follow up with its configuration at Getting started.

Introduction

This section outlines how to conveniently run Mosquitto, InfluxDB, MongoDB, Grafana and Kotori using Docker.

The repository provides two files docker-compose.yml and .env. They are needed to run the whole foundation infrastructure. On top of that, Kotori will be run within another container bind-mounting the local etc/ directory in order to bring in the configuration files.

There are two flavors of Kotori Docker images. daqzilla/kotori includes all dependencies to run a full installation while daqzilla/kotori-standard is a more trimmed-down variant, which is also offered for arm32v7 and arm64v8 platforms.

Those images are published to Docker Hub.

• https://hub.docker.com/r/daqzilla/kotori

• https://hub.docker.com/r/daqzilla/kotori-standard

Note

Please note that this Docker Compose configuration is primarily suited for evaluation and development purposes. As it either disables authentication or uses insecure authentication credentials for Mosquitto, InfluxDB and Grafana, it is not prepared for production setups.

Prerequisites

This will give you Mosquitto, InfluxDB, MongoDB and Grafana as well as an improved Grafana map panel plugin.

Just invoke:

docker-compose up

Setup Panodata Map panel plugin:

docker exec --interactive kotori_grafana_1 \
    bash -c '
        grafana-cli --pluginUrl https://github.com/panodata/grafana-map-panel/releases/download/0.15.0/grafana-map-panel-0.15.0.zip \
            plugins install grafana-map-panel; \
        pkill grafana-server
    '

Kotori

Running Kotori through Docker is easy.

Preflight checks:

docker run -it --rm daqzilla/kotori kotori --version

Invoke Kotori:

docker run \
    --volume="$(pwd)/etc":/etc/kotori \
    --publish=24642:24642 \
    --network kotori_default \
    -it --rm daqzilla/kotori \
    kotori --config /etc/kotori/docker.ini

Testdrive

This is a basic test to check if data is flowing correctly between the subsystems.

Submit single reading:

export CHANNEL_TOPIC=mqttkit-1/foo/bar/1/data.json
docker run \
    --network kotori_default \
    -it --rm eclipse-mosquitto:1.6 \
    mosquitto_pub -h mosquitto -t $CHANNEL_TOPIC -m '{"temperature": 42.84, "humidity": 83.1}'

Check if reading has been stored in InfluxDB:

docker run \
    --network kotori_default \
    -it --rm influxdb:1.8 \
    influx -precision=rfc3339 -host=influxdb -database=mqttkit_1_foo -execute='SELECT * FROM bar_1_sensors'

Go to Grafana and visit the dashboard just created:

open "http://localhost:3000/?orgId=1&search=open&query=mqttkit"