Node Red Setup Notes - abufitna/test GitHub Wiki
Get the latest Alpine Linux ISO from: https://www.alpinelinux.org/downloads/
Load it up on your device or VM.
Once it loaded run:
setup-alpine
Follow the setup process.
Create a new user account so that you can access remotely.....as ROOT cannot access remotely.
adduser USERNAME
You will need specify a password.
Exit and login using your newly created USER account.
Now you are ready to start the Node-Red install. To run the APK tool you will need to login as root via SU
command.
apk add --update nodejs npm
npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red
npm install pm2 -g
Now you can start Node-Red in the terminal window by typing node-red
Import your flows and verify functionality.
Next you will need to setup PM2 to run at system startup.
pm2 startup
Once done you will need add Node-Red to PM2 so that it is monitored and started at boot as well as restarted automatically if it crashes.
pm2 start node-red
pm2 save