How to set up a Simple IoT system in the cloud

[cbrake]

This video shows how easy it is to set up a cloud server to run Simple IoT, InfluxDB, and Grafana on a $5/mo cloud server. We deploy everything using Ansible.

Setting up a Simple IoT System in the cloud

Ansible roles:

• GitHub - simpleiot/ansible-role-simpleiot-bin: Ansible role for Simple IoT that uses binary releases
• cbrake (cbrake) / Repositories · GitHub

We’re using the grafana, influxdb2, simpleiot-bin, and caddy2 roles.

[khem]

superb, are you running this with nixos ?

[cbrake]

No, still Debian. NixOS is an interesting idea – we would not need Ansible then …

[cbrake]

One thought with this video is it should be doable by most developers who have some Linux skills. Setting up a NixOS server on Linode is project in itself, so probably beyond the interest of most people.