Getting Started

Getting Started

Getting Started here is pretty easy clone the repo and badaboom badabang it "works"

1. node-red

but to use the node red container you have to:
create a directory in the repo directory called nodered-data.
this can be achieved by using mkdir nodered-data as normal user not root because node-red is quirky and else it will not work

2. hostnames/domains

Because i wanted to use ssl encrytion in my production i had the great idea to also use domains to reach the containers.

In all honesty it helped with the nginx config.

to achive this i chose the domain automation01.local and its subdomains:
manage.automation01.local status.automation01.local and most importantly node-red.automation01.local

the ssl certs i generated like this:

openssl req \
-x509 \
-nodes \
-days 365 \
-subj "/C=<Country example: DE>/ST=<State example: NRW>/O=<org example: Google Inc.>/CN=node-red.automation01.local" \
-addext "subjectAltName=DNS:node-red.automation01.local" \
-newkey rsa:2048 \
-keyout host_privates/node-red-selfsigned.key \
-out host_certs/node-red-selfsigned.crt;