This is a new article series in which we use the Italian company Pixsys’ web panel to perform various tests. Episode 2 will introduce the use of Podman containers and the installation of Node-red.
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From the Pixsys website, it says that WP615 is Docker ready, so you can already use Docker technology in the shipping state.
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Create a folder for the Node-Red container
The container to be activated needs a space to store user data: access WP615 via SFTP -> New -> Directory to create a new folder under /data/user.
Done!So a new folder was created.
Next, set Permissions to 777 in the folder’s Attributes.
Access with VNC Viewer
Next, use VNC Viewer to access Pixsys’ WP615. This time we will download the image from Docker.io, so WP615 requires an Internet connection.
Podman Containers
Downloading images or managing containers can be done from the Podman containers screen.
Download new image
Click the three-dot button in the Images area → click Download new Image.
The Search for an image screen will appear.
Select docker.io from the drop-list of All registries.
Search for Node-red.
First select the first Node-red image.
Then, download the image by clicking the Download button at the bottom of the screen.
This is a several hundred MB file, so it may take several minutes depending on your Internet connection.
Done!Node-red image FileDownload is ready.
Creating Containers
Next, click on “Create container” in the Containers section to create a new container.
The Create Container screen appears.
Images
For the image, select the Node-red image downloaded from Docker.io earlier.
Memory Limit
Limit the memory usage of the Node-red container.
Port Mapping
The next step is to set up some PORT forwarding so that the container can be accessed from an external network.
Click Add port mapping.
As shown in the figure below, we have set up a transfer from hosts 1880 and 5002 to containers 1880 and 5002.
Volumes
Map container path/data visible from node-red to host path/data/user/node-red.
Done!
When unhealthy
Finally, we should be able to start the container automatically from the When unhealthy tab.
Create and Execute!
Finally, click “Create and run” to actually start the container.
result
Done!Node-red container is now Running.
And I was able to access Node-red’s Dashboard with WP615’s IP address:1880!
Note that the following error occurs when actually downloading Node:
Please refer to this article.
Or run the host network as it is.
podman run -it –network=host –name myred docker.io/nodered/node-red |
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