README.md

Docker-Mosquitto-NodeRED-NGINX-PROXY

This is a repository for setting up a Docker environment with a Mosquitto Broker, Node-RED, NGINX and a proxy.

Services

Node-RED

This is a Low-code programming application for event-driven applications. On top of Node-RED the container uses a Node-RED Dashboard this is automaticly installed. This container provides a set of nodes in Node-RED to quickly create a live data dashboard. for information on how this works, please refer to the offical documentation page of this module.

Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT)

MQTT is a lightweight, publish-subscribe, machine to machine network protocol used for communicating between devices. MQTT is TCP. This means that an MQTT packet is ensured that is is received by the receiving service (broker). In this environment there is an MQTT broker running. Node-RED can listen on specified topics where information is published.

Proxy (NGINX-Proxy)

This is a reverse proxy server that sits infront of all the other services running on the device. the server forwards the client to a specified destinion. In this case the proxy is used to create nicer looking urls like ui.localhost and nodered.localhost. This makes it for the user much more usable instead of going to specific ports.

Dashboard UI

This is for now a simple dashboard where users can navigate between Node-RED and the Node-RED Dashboard. In the future this can serve more purposes, but for now its basicly a gateway to the available services.

Development / Deployment

In this repository the main-node services can be deployed locally on your machine.

Prerequisites

• Docker

• Git

Clone Repository

git clone https://github.com/StevenSlaa/Docker-Mosquitto-NodeRED-NGINX-PROXY.git

Navigate to the correct directory

cd /Docker-Mosquitto-NodeRED-NGINX-PROXY

Run the docker compose

docker compose up -d

After this, you can access the containers by going to the following urls:

localhost