Running Mosquitto in Docker

Running Mosquitto MQTT broker in a Docker container is the advised method to deploy servers.

• https://hub.docker.com/_/eclipse-mosquitto
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKw3tUrX3d8
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABb-63y0Em4 CURRENT METHODOLOGY

Install

1. https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/debian/#install-using-the-repository
2. sudo visudo ...ADD THIS LINE... username ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/docker (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21659637/how-to-fix-sudo-no-tty-present-and-no-askpass-program-specified-error more info)
3. Create local configuration files (see command below and Node-RED Flow)
4. Build and start Docker image locally using command below.

sudo docker run -it -p 10883:10883 -p 9001:9001 --name=mqtt -v /home/pi/mqtt:/mosquitto/config -v /home/pi/mqtt/mqtt1.conf:/mosquitto/config/mosquitto.conf -v /home/pi/mqtt/aclfile.acl:/mosquitto/config/aclfile.acl -v /home/pi/mqtt/pwfile:/mosquitto/config/passwordfile eclipse-mosquitto:openssl

Starting

sudo docker restart mqtt

Node-RED Flow

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