Building Influx on Ubuntu 20.04

Some quick notes on how to build Influx on Ubuntu. I’ve built a couple of instances of influx in the past for specific projects, usually without any other elements of the TICK stack.

Update the system:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Get and install repository for Influx.

curl -sL https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/ubuntu bionic stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list

Update repository

apt-get update

Install Influxdb

apt-get install influxdb

Start up influx and enable it as a service

systemctl start influxdb
systemctl enable influxdb

Check the status

systemctl status influxdb

Uncomment the following line in order to allow influx to listen.

vim /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf

[http]
  # Determines whether HTTP endpoint is enabled.
  enabled = true

Install the influx cli client

sudo apt-get install influxdb-client

Next in this series will be authentication and authorization.