Silent Installation of Ignition and associated Modules

Vijay_Krishna_G_M1 · April 27, 2022, 5:03pm

Dear Team,

Hope you are doing well

I am looking for a possible solution which enables me to perform the silent installation of Ignition and its associated modules like MQTT, GCI Module etc…

Since I found the documentation on Automated Installation on Windows but there is no sufficient resources available for installing additional modules and DB configuration etc…

Requesting your support please

Kind regards,
Vijay

PGriffith · April 27, 2022, 5:55pm

Option 1 is Docker; kcollins/ignition lets you programmatically install third party modules.

Option 2 is scripting it yourself. Deliberately, we don’t allow you to trivially bypass the license and certificate verification of third party code. You’re welcome to make the appropriate changes to the internal database yourself, but we won’t do it for you.

Vijay_Krishna_G_M1 · April 28, 2022, 3:06pm

Thanks for your input @PGriffith, Would be glad to know if you can help me out. How to perform silent installation of ignition by passing parameter of customized username and password please

PGriffith · April 28, 2022, 3:09pm

Take a look at @Kevin.Collins’ docker image - all his extra customization is done using bash, and it’s open source:

github.com

thirdgen88/ignition-docker/blob/main/8.1/perform-commissioning.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

port="${GATEWAY_HTTP_PORT:-8088}"

# usage: health_check DELAY_SECS TARGET|DETAILS
#   ie: health_check 60
#   ie: health_check 60 RUNNING|COMMISSIONING
health_check() {
    local delay=$1
    local target=$2
    local details="null"
    if [[ "${target}" == *"|"* ]]; then
        details=$(printf '%s' "${target}" | cut -d \| -f 2)
        target=$(printf '%s' "${target}" | cut -d \| -f 1)
    fi

    # Wait for a short period for the commissioning servlet to come alive
    for ((i=delay;i>0;i--)); do
        raw_json=$(curl -s --max-time 3 -f "http://localhost:${port}/StatusPing" || true)
        state_value=$(echo "${raw_json}" | jq -r '.["state"]')

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You could adapt the same techniques to a different programming language/environment.

kcollins1 · April 28, 2022, 6:53pm

I’ll also augment that starting with Ignition 8.1.9, you can actually just define the following environment variables that will be read by the commissioning system on first-launch (regardless of running in Docker or not):

GATEWAY_ADMIN_PASSWORD=supersecretpassword
ACCEPT_IGNITION_EULA=Y
IGNITION_EDITION=standard
GATEWAY_DEFAULT_PORTS=true
- … or alternatively, these three below
- GATEWAY_HTTP_PORT=8088
- GATEWAY_HTTPS_PORT=8043
- GATEWAY_GAN_PORT=8060

Omitting any of the above will result in the respective commissioning page being presented. Supply the whole set and the gateway will launch all the way through to running state. Additionally, you can use _FILE versions of these to read in the value from a file, e.g. GATEWAY_ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE=/path/to/file-containing-secret.