Advanced Setup

the installing factry historian using docker docid\ myrfsdthxlh5xqk06ik m is designed for quick evaluation and runs with defaults directly from the docker compose yml for deeper evaluation, you can configure the stack using environment variables this page explains how to extend the setup with your own env file and details the mandatory and optional variables you can use creating an environment file in the /advanced directory, create a file named env touch env docker compose will automatically load variables from this file and substitute them into the configuration if you would use a different name, you can later pass the correct another env to docker compose env file another env up d required environment variables these variables must be set to ensure the services start securely and consistently variable description db password postgresql password influxdb admin password influxdb admin password gf security admin password grafana admin password alternatively, you can also pass these environment variables via the command line optional environment variables you can also define the optional variables to adapt the setup to your environment general variable default description tz utc timezone for the docker containers factry historian variable default description version latest factry historian version to use auto migrate true auto perform migrations db name factry historian postgresql database name db user name factry postgresql username grpc port 8001 grpc port grpc bind address 0 0 0 0 grpc bind address rest port 8000 rest api port rest bind address 0 0 0 0 rest api bind address grafana variable default description gf version latest grafana oss version gf server root url http //127 0 0 1 grafana root url grafana port 3000 grafana server port gf auth anonymous enabled false enable anonymous access gf auth anonymous org name factry organization for anonymous users gf bind address 0 0 0 0 grafana bind address influxdb variable default description influxdb admin user factry influxdb admin username validating your configuration before starting the stack, run docker compose config this will render the final configuration with your environment variables applied, making it easy to confirm credentials and port mappings keep secrets safe! avoid committing env files with passwords into git instead, use a secret management tool or keep a local env excluded via gitignore