thingsboard_docker_https

Thingsboard monolithic (single server) setup with Let's Encrypt certificate served by Nginx reverse proxy.

Motivation

The official tutorial for Thingsboard + HAProxy + Let's Encrypt is not dockerized: https://thingsboard.io/docs/user-guide/install/pe/add-haproxy-ubuntu/

Usage

Follow the official tutorial to setup a simple Thingsboard-only service: https://thingsboard.io/docs/user-guide/install/docker/#detaching-stop-and-start-commands

Choose your preferred docker-compose.yml from this repository and make a copy:

cp docker-compose.yml.tb_swag_watchtower docker-compose.yml

Edit it to match your server setup. Set the URL parameter in the swag service's environment params in docker-compose.yml to match your server's url (e.g. mydomain.com) and make sure to have a wildcard DNS A record *.mydomain.com pointing to your server's IP address.

Run:

docker-compose up -d

After a minute or two, you should be able to load your Thingsboard webapp at https://tb.mydomain.com

Warning: Let's Encrypt has a limit of 5 requests per week, so if you plan to experiment with the configuration a bit, set STAGING=true in the swag service environment params.

Description of docker-compose.yml files

• docker-compose.yml.tb contains the most simple configuration with only the thingsboard image (without https). Source: https://thingsboard.io/docs/user-guide/install/docker/

• docker-compose.yml.tb_swag Thingsboard + SWAG (linuxserver/swag contains all info about Let's Encrypt parameters). SWAG provides the Nginx reverse proxy with automatic Let's Encrypt certificate. The nginx.thingsboard.subdomain.conf file was modified from another SWAG config following @mfalkvidd's config here. It sets the tb subdomain to be redirected to the Thingsboard service.

• docker-compose.yml.tb_swag_watchtower Thingsboard + SWAG + Watchtower. Same as above plus automatic updates of the SWAG image provided by containerrr/watchtower.

Troubleshooting

When I ran the compose for the first time, it started correctly, but when I restarted it, I got:

org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Connection to localhost:5432 refused. Check that the hostname and port are correct and that the postmaster is accepting TCP/IP connections.

The solution found by @pieromacaluso in this issue was to run again the following:

sudo chown -R 799:799 ~/.mytb-data
sudo chown -R 799:799 ~/.mytb-logs

After this, Thingsboard started well everytime.