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+FROM influxdb:2.7
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+# Influxdb deployment instructions
+## Create app
+
+```bash
+dokku$ dokku apps:create influxdb
+# only listen locally
+# if devs wish to access the UI externally, they should use an SSH tunnel (see later)
+dokku nginx:set node-js-app bind-address-ipv4 127.0.0.1
+dokku nginx:set node-js-app bind-address-ipv6 ::1
+dokku$ dokku git:set influxdb deploy-branch main
+dokku$ dokku builder-dockerfile:set influxdb dockerfile-path influxdb/Dockerfile
+```
+
+## create persistent storage
+
+
+```bash
+dokku$ dokku storage:ensure-directory influxdb
+dokku storage:mount influxdb /var/lib/dokku/data/storage/influxdb:/var/lib/influxdb
+```
+
+## Configure app
+
+```bash
+# TODO: not sure what's needed here yet
+dokku config:set influxdb MYVAR="myval"
+```
+
+## Manually pushing
+
+* set up key on target server
+  * madwort adding his regular key for now - needs a better setup
+
+```bash
+local$ git clone git@github.com:ebmdatalab/metrics.git
+local$ cd sysadmin
+local$ git remote add dokku dokku@MYSERVER:influxdb
+local$ git push dokku main
+```
+
+## Letsencrypt
+
+TODO: not possible to use LE right now because we're not world-accessible :/
+
+```bash
+dokku$ dokku ports:add influxdb http:80:3000
+# TODO: block access to port 3000?
+dokku$ dokku letsencrypt:enable grafana
+```
+
+## connection from Grafana
+
+API key?
+
+## See also
+
+https://github.com/thomasfedb/influxdb-dokku
+