meta-influx

This Yocto meta layer contains all the recipes needed to build the TICK Stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, Kapacitor) into a Yocto image for ARM architecture.

Usage

• Add meta-influx layer to your bblayers.conf file

• Add following to your local.conf

    DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " systemd"
    VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager = "systemd"
    DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED = "sysvinit"
    VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts = ""
  

• Then, add following line to your local.conf to use Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf and Kapacitor

    IMAGE_INSTALL_append = "telegraf influxdb chronograf kapacitor"
  

• Run bitbake <image name>

Tested Hardware

• Raspberry Pi 3
• Colibri T30
• Variscite DART-6UL

Tested Yocto Project Releases

• Zeus (3.0)
• Thud (2.6)
• Sumo (2.5)
• Rocko (2.4)