README.md

Docker Files

This folder contains docker setups that can be used to run local InfluxDB and Telegraf containers. These are used to test various InfluxDB/Telegraf setups.

The command docker-compose up can be used within each of the following folders to run the containers. Running docker-compose down will remove the containers.

A description of the various test environments are provided below:

• one-telegraf
  • provides a setup with one instance of Telegraf running and reading/streaming example EWS xml data into InfluxDB
  • used to test the xml parser that will be used to read streaming data to InfluxDB
• two-telegraf
  • provides a setup with two instances of Telegraf running with the first instance reading/streaming cpu and memory data into InfluxDB and the second instance listening for tasks sent from Influxdb (currently not successfully)
  • used as a test setup to see if Telegraf can listen to tasks from InfluxDB
• incl-python
  • same setup as one-telegraf but runs the streaming data through the execd processor with a python script
  • includes a new docker container natewray/telegraf-python:1.18.2 which installs python allowing python scripts to be run from the Telegraf execd plug-in

telegraf-python.docker is not required to run the above setups but provides the file used to create the derivative natewray/telegraf-python:1.18.2 container which is a copy of the telegraf:1.18.2 container but with python installed. This container is hosted directly on docker hub here but can also be built using the command docker build -t natewray/telegraf-python:1.18.2 - < telegraf-python.docker.