Demo installation

This tutorial covers how to setup a demonstration environment of the Mender server. This is not intended for production use, the demonstration environment is insecure and is not optimized to run effectively.

This can be useful if you want to familiarize your self with the Mender server before you move on to Production installation.

Requirements

The demo environment requires the following components to be available on your system:

• Docker Engine
• Docker Compose

• Install the following utilities, example for Ubuntu:

  sudo apt install gawk curl bsdmainutils jq git

In addition, add the following lines to /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 s3.docker.mender.io
127.0.0.1 docker.mender.io

Manage the Mender demo instance

Starting the demo

Clone the integration repository which contains everything that is need to start the demo server:

git clone -b 3.3.2 https://github.com/mendersoftware/integration.git integration-3.3.2

Change directory to the cloned repository:

 cd integration-3.3.2

Start the demo server:

./demo up

After a short while, depending on your network connection speed, you should see similar output to the following:

Creating integration_minio_1        ... done
Creating integration_mender-gui_1   ... done
Creating integration_mender-nats_1                   ... done
Creating integration_mender-mongo_1 ... done
Creating integration_mender-workflows-worker_1       ... done
Creating integration_mender-useradm_1                ... done
Creating integration_mender-deviceconfig_1           ... done
Creating integration_mender-inventory_1              ... done
Creating integration_mender-workflows-server_1       ... done
Creating integration_mender-create-artifact-worker_1 ... done
Creating integration_mender-deviceconnect_1          ... done
Creating integration_mender-device-auth_1            ... done
Creating integration_mender-api-gateway_1            ... done
Creating integration_mender-deployments_1            ... done
Creating a new user...
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Username: mender-demo@example.com
Login password: xxxxxxxxxxxx

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The script created a demo user, and you can login to the Mender UI by visiting https://localhost.

Stopping the demo

To stop the demo use Ctrl+C. This will only stop the containers, but will not remove them. To remove containers use commands from the section below.

Clean up the environment

If you want to remove all state in your Mender demo environment and start clean, run the following commands in the integration-3.3.2 directory:

./demo stop

./demo rm -v

./demo up