readme.md

Build and deploy Data Retriever

The Data Retriever component is responsible for retrieving the Homewizard data and store it in the InfluxDB database.

You can pull an existing image from Dockerhub.

Build the image for a Windows operating system

• Build the project as a container image

  docker build . -f Dockerfile-amd64 -t homewizard-datacollector:<tag>

• Run the program

  docker run homewizard-datacollector:001 --network="host"

  The --network="host" argument makes sure that the container connects to the host's network.

Building for ARM32 devices

If you want to run the image on a Raspberry PI, you need to use the Dockerfile-arm32 for building the image.

If you build this container for arm32 on a Windows system, use docker buildx to build the image.

You also need the required emulators. Find information on how to install them here.

Make sure that you have the linux/arm/v7 emulator. Verify this by executing docker buildx ls.

Additional background information for this can be found here.

Once everything is in place, build the image using this command:

docker buildx build . -f .\Dockerfile-arm32 -t homewizard-datacollector:<tag>

Push to dockerhub

• Build the container locally

• Tag the container so that it can be pushed to dockerhub:

  docker tag homewizard-datacollector:001 docker.io/fgheysels/homewizard-datacollector:001
  

• Make sure to be logged in with Docker Hub via docker login

• Push the image to the repository docker push fgheysels/homewizard-datacollector:0.0.1

• Pull image docker pull docker.io/fgheysels/homewizard-datacollector:0.0.1

Deploy to Kubernetes

Deploy the component on a Kubernetes cluster by simply deploying the deployment manifest which is found in the .\deploy\k8s\ folder.

kubectl apply -f .\deploy\k8s\deployment.yaml -n homewizard-data