Thingsboard is an open-source IoT platform that is used to connect devices, collect, analyze and visualize telemetry data. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Thingsboard on Fedora CoreOS.
Before you start with this tutorial, make sure you have the following:
The first step to install Thingsboard on Fedora CoreOS is to update the system. To do that, open a terminal and type:
sudo rpm-ostree update
Thingsboard requires Java to run on your system. To install Java on your Fedora CoreOS, execute the following command:
sudo rpm-ostree install java-latest-openjdk-headless
Now that we have Java installed, let's download and install Thingsboard on our system. Execute the following commands one by one:
sudo mkdir /opt/thingsboard
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /opt/thingsboard
cd /opt/thingsboard
sudo curl -L https://github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard/releases/download/v3.3.3/thingsboard-3.3.3.rpm -o thingsboard.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh thingsboard.rpm
After installing Thingsboard, we need to start and enable the Thingsboard service. Execute the following command:
sudo systemctl enable --now thingsboard
Now that you have installed and started the Thingsboard service, you can access the web interface of Thingsboard. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080. You will be redirected to the login page of Thingsboard.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Thingsboard on your Fedora CoreOS instance.
In this tutorial, we have learned how to install Thingsboard on Fedora CoreOS. We hope this tutorial was helpful to you. If you encounter any issues or have any questions, please feel free to ask.
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