How to Install Plausible Analytics on Clear Linux Latest

Plausible Analytics is an open-source website analytics tool that provides website owners with insight into their website's visitors, page views, and more. The tool is easy to install and use, and it doesn't require any personal data of visitors, making it a privacy-friendly option for website analytics.

In this tutorial, we will be installing the Plausible Analytics software on Clear Linux Latest using the command-line interface. Follow the steps below to complete the installation process successfully.

Prerequisites

Before we begin the installation, you will need the following:

• A Clear Linux Latest instance with an active SSH connection.
• Root access to the server.

Step 1: Install Docker

Plausible Analytics is packaged as a Docker container, which means we will have to install Docker on our Clear Linux Latest instance before we can deploy the software. Here's how:

1. Log in to your Clear Linux Latest server as the root user.

2. Update the server's package index by running the following command:

swupd update

3. Install Docker by running the following command:

swupd bundle-add containers-basic

4. After the installation is complete, verify that Docker is running correctly by running the following command:

systemctl status docker

You should see a message indicating that Docker is active and running.

Step 2: Pull the Plausible Analytics Docker Image

Now that we have Docker installed on our Clear Linux Latest instance, we can proceed to pull the Plausible Analytics Docker image from the Docker Hub repository. Here's how:

1. Log in to your Clear Linux Latest server as the root user.

2. Pull the Plausible Analytics Docker image by running the following command:

docker pull plausible/analytics:latest

This command will download the latest Plausible Analytics Docker image into your Docker image cache.

Step 3: Start the Plausible Analytics Container

Finally, we can start our Plausible Analytics container by running the following command:

docker run -p 80:80 -p 443:443 plausible/analytics:latest

This command will start the Plausible Analytics container and map ports 80 and 443 to the container's equivalent ports.

Step 4: Access the Plausible Analytics Dashboard

After running the command in step 3, you can access the Plausible Analytics dashboard by visiting http://YOUR_SERVER_IP in your web browser.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we deployed Plausible Analytics on Clear Linux Latest using Docker. The steps outlined here should work on any Clear Linux Latest instance with root access. Once the installation is complete, we can start monitoring our website visitors and take data-driven decisions on improving our website.

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