Monolithic deployment

These instructions refer solely to the installation of on-premises Monolitic Deployment. Installation is not required for the SaaS offering and instructions for the Cluster Deployment can be found in the section Cluster Deplyoment. A Monolithic Deployment is a deployment of a single thingsHub tenant using docker compose. Optionally, the PostgreSQL and InfluxDB databases can be included in the docker-compose setup, for simplified administration.

Minimal system requirements

A thingsHub Monolotic Deployment requires a virtual or bare-metal host with the following minimal specification:

• AMD64-compatible processor

• 4 (virtual) CPUs

• 8GB RAM

• 1000 IOPS

• 50GB Solid State Drive (SSD)

• Ubuntu Linux 16.04 or 18.04

Additional requirements

In addition to the above system requirements, the following is required or recommended:

• Docker Engine 19.04

• Docker Compose 1.25.5

• A Domain Name (correctly registered and pointing at the thingsHub host)

• External access to ports 80/443 on the host

• Outgoing access to ports 80/443 to the hosts

  • docker-registry.smartmakers.de

  • downloads.smartmakers.de

  • drivers.smartmakers.de

• SSH-based root access to the host

• Systemd and systemctl are recommended

• Company logo and name

• An SMTP server and matching credentials for sending alerting and notification emails

Step-by-step instructions

Please contact support@smartmakers.de for step-by-step instruction for installing ThingsHub.