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Securing Supporting Services

Node-RED

To enable TLS on the internal Node-RED server, set the environment variable EDGEXPERT_NODERED_TLS to true on the host

export EDGEXPERT_NODERED_TLS=true

InfluxDB

To enable TLS on the internal InfluxDB server, set the environment variable EDGEXPERT_INFLUXDB_TLS to true on the host

export EDGEXPERT_INFLUXDB_TLS=true

Grafana

To enable TLS on the internal Grafana server, set the environment variable EDGEXPERT_GRAFANA_TLS to true on the host

export EDGEXPERT_GRAFANA_TLS=true

Securely Launch the Services

Additionally, Edge Xpert must be launched with the --secret option.

For example, start a TLS-enabled Node-Red server with the following command:

edgexpert up --secret nodered