Node-RED Docker Compose

Third party integrations Node-RED
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Is there a docker compose file for Node-Red that someone has completed?

And where would one download the latest Node-RED plugin for Home Assistant if you didn’t install it using Hass.io?

2

??

Right in node red from the palette manager. Get the websocket version

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Thanks, it was telling it to run as root that I was missing. Now to go back and figure out how to make both HomeAssistant and Node-Red not run as root. But at least now I have something that’s all dockerized with the config folders in Github.

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Why?

Docker containers running as root isn’t all bad and if you change that (which would mean building a new image for HA), you will break things.

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I’ve rebuilt the image a few times already for kicks and giggle, and actually it survived fine - I mapped the configuration directory locally.

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There’s a guide here:

https://nodered.org/docs/platforms/docker

On how to use node-red with docker :slight_smile:

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This docker compose worked for me. If you already havea docker-compose , add this to the existing section.

nodered:
container_name: node-red
image: nodered/node-red-docker
volumes:
- /home/node-red:/data
ports:
- “1880:1880”
user: 1000:1000
restart: always

If you need the whiole docker-compose file, let me know and I ill edit my reply.

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Hi, how do you make Node-red to also start with docker-compose? I see with docker ps -a that it is there, but web interface is not up. I have to do docker run -it -p 1880:1880 --name mynodered nodered/node-red-docker. I’m a docker noob. But homeassistant works with same docker-compose.

I want that with docker-compose up -d everything fires up. My docker-compose looks like this now

version: '3'
services:
  homeassistant:
    container_name: home-assistant
    image: homeassistant/home-assistant
    volumes:
      - /home/tuomas/homeassistant:/config
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    restart: always
    network_mode: host
  nodered:
    container_name: node-red
    image: nodered/node-red-docker
    volumes:
      - /home/tuomas/node-red:/data
    ports:
      - "1880:1880"
    restart: always
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Slight aside, but I put together a Docker image for Node Red that includes the Home Assistant palette: https://hub.docker.com/r/efirestone/node-red-ha

It should hopefully save everyone a few setup steps.

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Great, I will test it.
Do you plan to provide a documentation too with the full integration of the tool within HomeAssistant ?

…and regular updates ?

BTW, Thanks for the work.