ThingsBoard Gateway Docker

The Thingsboard IoT Gateway is an open-source solution that allows you to integrate devices connected to legacy and third-party systems with Thingsboard.

Thingsboard is an open-source IoT platform for data collection, processing, visualization, and device management.

Running Gateway 2.5.x

docker run -it -v ~/.tb-gateway/logs:/thingsboard_gateway/logs -v ~/.tb-gateway/extensions:/thingsboard_gateway/extensions -v ~/.tb-gateway/config:/thingsboard_gateway/config --name tb-gateway --restart always thingsboard/tb-gateway:2.5.1

-v ~/.tb-gateway/config:/thingsboard_gateway/config - mounts the host’s dir ~/.tb-gateway/config to Gateway config directory
-v ~/.tb-gateway/extensions:/thingsboard_gateway/extensions - mounts the host’s dir ~/.tb-gateway/extensions to Gateway extensions directory
-v ~/.tb-gateway/logs:/thingsboard_gateway/logs - mounts the host’s dir ~/.tb-gateway/logs to Gateway logs directory

Running Gateway 3.0.x

docker run -it -v ~/.tb-gateway/logs:/var/log/thingsboard-gateway -v ~/.tb-gateway/extensions:/var/lib/thingsboard_gateway/extensions -v ~/.tb-gateway/config:/etc/thingsboard-gateway/config --name tb-gateway --restart always thingsboard/tb-gateway:3.0.1

-v ~/.tb-gateway/config:/etc/thingsboard-gateway/config - mounts the host’s dir ~/.tb-gateway/config to Gateway config directory
-v ~/.tb-gateway/extensions:/var/lib/thingsboard_gateway/extensions - mounts the host’s dir ~/.tb-gateway/extensions to Gateway extensions directory
-v ~/.tb-gateway/logs:/var/log/thingsboard-gateway - mounts the host’s dir ~/.tb-gateway/logs to Gateway logs directory

Tips

vi ~/.tb-gateway/config/tb_gateway.yaml: host, port
vi ~/.tb-gateway/config/mqtt.json: host, port

Upgrading

$ docker pull thingsboard/tb-gateway
$ docker stop tb-gateway
$ docker rm tb-gateway
$ docker run -it -v ~/.tb-gateway/logs:/var/log/thingsboard-gateway -v ~/.tb-gateway/extensions:/var/lib/thingsboard_gateway/extensions -v ~/.tb-gateway/config:/etc/thingsboard-gateway/config --name tb-gateway --restart always thingsboard/tb-gateway

Architecture

The IoT Gateway is built on top of Python, however is different from similar projects that leverage OSGi technology. The idea is distantly similar to microservices architecture.
The gateway supports custom connectors to connect to new devices or servers and custom converters for processing data from devices.
Especially, when we are talking about language APIs and existing libraries to work with serial ports, GPIOs, I2C, and new modules and sensors that are released every day.

The Gateway provides simple integration APIs, and encapsulates common Thingsboard related tasks: device provisioning, local data persistence and delivery, message converters and other.
For processing data from devices you also can write custom converter, it will receive information from device and send it to converter to convert to unified format before sending it to the ThingsBoard cluster.