Brett BeesonBrisbane, Australia

ARTICLE / 2021.06.27

InfluxDB1 to InfluxDB2 with SSL

Install new Ubuntu 20 LTS on AWS (t3.medium). 't3 is better value than t2' (tried installing influxdb2 (auto upgrade from v1) then upgrade distro. Ok but influxdb crashed after upgrade.) Install InfluxDB2 using one big bucket with name as "db-name/rp-name" (p…

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  • Install new Ubuntu 20 LTS on AWS (t3.medium).
    • 't3 is better value than t2'
    • (tried installing influxdb2 (auto upgrade from v1) then upgrade distro. Ok but influxdb crashed after upgrade.)
  • Install InfluxDB2
    • using one big bucket with name as "db-name/rp-name" (phisaver/autogen) to match v1
    • (need to work out different buckets and/or organisations to seperate multi-tenants)
  • Install SSL
    • Influx's docs for self-signed are work
    • Need to sort out certbot and SSL certs. Wildcard for *.phisaver.com ???
  • Config InfluxDB2
    • Upload v1 data or copy via EBS
    • add v1 compatible users
  • Install NGINX
    • Add other hosted sites and their SSL (certbot?). brettbeeson.com.au and gatchi.com.au
    • Redirect :80 to localhost:3000 (grafana) for host: live2.phisaver.com
    • Redirect http://live2.phisaver.com:8086 to https://localhost:8086
  • Install Grafana
    • Copy setup from v1 server (users, orgs, dashboards)

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