Spinning Up InfluxDB 2.0 (Alpha) with Docker

David McKay — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 14:27:56 +0000

Warning: InfluxDB 2.0 (Alpha) should NOT be used for any production workloads.

While InfluxData, the company behind InfluxDB, does not provide packages for alpha builds; we do run our own alpha's for various testing and performance purposes. For this, we provide a public Docker image through Quay.io.

Getting Started

Running with Docker

docker container run --port 9999:9999 quay.io/influxdb/influxdb:2.0.0-alpha

Running with Docker Compose

version: "3"

services:
  influxdb:
    image: quay.io/influxdb/influxdb:2.0.0-alpha
    ports:
      - "9999:9999"

Persistance

If you need to persist your database across container restarts, you may feel free to add a volume mount directory /root/.influxdbv2.

Configuring InfluxDB 2.0 (Alpha)

Now that you have a container running, you'll need to configure things. InfluxDB 2.0 is different from previous releases in that authentication cannot be ignored or disabled. InfluxDB 2.0 is also multi-tenant, which means you'll need to specify an organisation for your user during setup.

Using the GUI

You can configure everything through our GUI, using https://localhost:9999.

Using the CLI

You can configure everything through our CLI, though you'll need to get "inside" the container first.

# Docker
docker container exec -it container_name bash

# Docker Compose
docker-compose exec influxdb bash

Now that you're inside the container, you can use our setup command to configure everything interactively:

influx setup

If you'd like to do this through a script, you can also use the command line flags:

Flags:
  -b, --bucket string     primary bucket name
  -f, --force             skip confirmation prompt
  -h, --help              Help for the setup command
  -o, --org string        primary organization name
  -p, --password string   password for username
  -r, --retention int     retention period in hours, else infinite (default -1)
  -u, --username string   primary username

API Token

Specifying a token during setup will also allow you to set the API token for future requests. Omitting this will have one generated for you and stored in /root/.influxdbv2/credentials (Inside the container).

You can specify the token as such:

-t, --token string   API token to be used throughout client calls

That's it! Now you've got a working InfluxDB 2.0 ready for data.

Have fun!

InfluxDB 2.0.0 Alpha 8

David McKay — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 16:44:06 +0000

A new release of InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha is available now. As described in our CTO Paul Dix’s original release announcement for InfluxDB 2.0, we will be shipping regular updates as we add new features and fix issues. Please keep in mind that these alpha builds are not meant for testing performance or production usage, but more for giving feedback on the functionality, user experience, and APIs.

InfluxDB 2.0.0 Alpha 8 — release notes

This release of InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha includes the following enhancements:

Redesigned the navigation to make it easier to find the information you are looking for. In addition, users can quickly create new Organizations and switch between them.
We have added the ability to import from a Template for Dashboards and added a new "Getting Started with Flux" Template to help with learning the new language.
We've added the ability to give feedback and opt in to user testing sessions from the application. We want to hear what you think!
Updated Flux library to version 0.25.0. Check out the Flux library release for the latest updates.

Please download and explore our latest iteration. If you find issues or have questions, please post them in our InfluxDB Github Repo or our Community Site and we will take a look. Thank you for all the interest and positive feedback so far. The latest release of InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha can be downloaded here.

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