Login to new Influxdb 2 installation

InfluxDB 2
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I have a new install of influxdb 2 on a raspberry pi 5 using PiBuilder and IOTstack. Docker is up and running as is Portainer-CE and Node-Red. Other yet to access are Mosquitto and Grafana.
It’s been a long install, surprisingly with no errors reported.

I’m trying to access each of the installed applications in turn. docker ps -a shows all containers up and running.

The problem is with the influxdb login. I’m accessing each application by hostname so for influxdb this is raspberrypi.local:8087

There’s no cert for influxdb so it’s just plain http:// etc

The first thing presented is a login screen. I expected to be invited to add a user, but no.

At the login there’s no user/password that gets me in. I’ve tried Administrator/Administrator1, admin/admin, admin/password, root/root and so on…

I’d be grateful if someone can help me over this unexpected obstacle.
Thanks in advance,
Ric

2

Hmm that’s very odd.
When you startup for the first time you should be prompted to setup.
Can you share your dockerfile?

3

Hello and thank you for your reply.

I tried various CLI recovery methods suggested previously to others who’d lost or forgotten user credentials. None worked.

I solved the problem only by removing the container and rebuilding outside of IOTstack. Setup then proceeded as expected first by adding a user.

Interestingly, that brought a greater level of control to docker and, with it, visibility of volumes within Portainer.

Thx again,
Ric

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Hi again,
Rooting around the install files I found this:
/home/<~~~~~>IOTstack/.templates/influxdb2/service.yml
… in there we have:
influxdb2:
container_name: influxdb2
image: “influxdb:latest”
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
- TZ=Etc/UTC
- DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_USERNAME=me
- DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_PASSWORD=mypassword
- DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_ORG=myorg
- DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_BUCKET=mybucket
- DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_ADMIN_TOKEN=my-super-secret-auth-token
- DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_MODE=setup

- DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_MODE=upgrade

ports:
- “8087:8086”
volumes:
- ./volumes/influxdb2/data:/var/lib/influxdb2
- ./volumes/influxdb2/config:/etc/influxdb2
- ./volumes/influxdb2/backup:/var/lib/backup

- ./volumes/influxdb.migrate/data:/var/lib/influxdb:ro

healthcheck:
test: [“CMD”, “influx”, “ping”]
interval: 30s
timeout: 10s
retries: 3
start_period: 30s

“me”/“mypassword” gets me into both Influxdb and Influxdb2 installed via IOTstack

I’m no longer using IOTstack to install Influx. Besides, the anticipated arrival of Influxdb 3 (or is that Influxdb Edge?) and the reversion to InfluxQL means I won’t need to learn Flux. It’s fresh install time.
Regards,
Ric