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Installing ioBroker on CentOS8 with Podman

Shanghai, China

Installation through Podman on CentOS8​

IoBroker for Docker is an Dockerimage for ioBroker IoT platform.

The automatically built images are available on Docker Hub. Download the image with one of the following command:

podman pull buanet/iobroker:latest

And and run it:

podman run -p 8081:8081 --name iobroker buanet/iobroker:latest

ioBroker CentOS8 Podman

Persist your Configuration​

  1. Find out your container ID (or just use the name you have assigned when running the image)
podman ps 
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                                     COMMAND               CREATED         STATUS             PORTS                             NAMES
5582e69da175  localhost/buanet/iobroker:latest          /opt/scripts/iobr...  13 minutes ago  Up 13 minutes ago  0.0.0.0:8081->8081/tcp            iobroker
  1. Get into the container and find the ioBroker location
[root@CentOS8 ~]# podman exec -ti 5582e69da175 /bin/bash
root@5582e69da175:/opt/iobroker# find / -name iobroker
/etc/sudoers.d/iobroker
/home/iobroker
/opt/iobroker
/opt/iobroker/iobroker
/usr/bin/iobroker
/iobroker
  1. Stop and delete the container and change to runscript to mount the folder onto your host system:
podman stop iobroker
podman rm iobroker
podman run -p 8081:8081 \
  -p 8082:8082 \
  -p 8087:8087 \
  -p 1883:1883 \
  --name iobroker \
   -v /opt/iobroker:/opt/iobroker \
   -v /opt/iobroker/home:/home/iobroker \
  --detach=true \
  --restart='always' \
  buanet/iobroker:latest

Port 8082 added for ioBroker visualization, port 8087 for the REST API and port 1883 for MQTT.

Make sure that the folders /opt/iobroker/home and /opt/iobroker exist on your host system (chmod -R 777 /opt/iobroker or 755 to give Podman all necessary permissions and chcon -Rt svirt_sandbox_file_t /opt/motioneye).

I noticed a problem that podman changes the owner:group of those folders on my host system to iobroker:iobroker. But it sets the permission wrong and ioBroker no longer loads - you can check it with podman logs iobroker. Rerunning chmod -R 777 /opt/iobroker solves the issue.