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This guide takes you through the steps to get Node-RED running on an GCP Virtual Machine instance.

Create the base image

  1. Log in to the Google Cloud Platform Console

  2. Select your project.

  3. Click VPC network >> VPC networks >> Firewall rules >> CREATE FIREWALL RULE

    new Create a firewall rule with the options set as:

    • Name: node-red-editor
    • Network: default
    • Priority: 1010
    • Direction of traffic: Ingress
    • Action on match: Allow
    • Targets: ALL Instances in the network
    • Source filter: IP ranges
    • Source IP ranges: 0.0.0.0/0
    • Protocols and ports: Specified protocols and ports
      • tcp: 1880

    Click Create on the Settings page.

  4. Click Compute Engine >> VM instances >> Create

    Give your machine info

    • Name: node-red-instance
    • Region: us-central1
    • Zone: us-central1-a
    • Machine configuration
      • Machine family
        • General-purpose
      • Series
        • N1
      • Machine type
        • f1-micro
    • Boot disk
      • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

    Click Create on the Settings page, then the instance will start to be created.

After a couple of minutes your instance will be running. In the console you can find your instance's IP address as External IP.

Setup Node-RED

The next task is to log into the instance then install node.js and Node-RED.

Log into your instance using the authentication details you specified in the previous stage.

Once logged in you need to install node.js and Node-RED

   curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
   sudo apt-get install -y nodejs build-essential
   sudo npm install -g node-red

At this point you can test your instance by running node-red. Note: you may get some errors regarding the Serial node - that's to be expected and can be ignored.

Once started, you can access the editor at http://<your-instance-ip>:1880/.

To get Node-RED to start automatically whenever your instance is restarted, you can use pm2:

   sudo npm install -g pm2
   pm2 start `which node-red` -- -v
   pm2 save
   pm2 startup

Note: this final command will prompt you to run a further command - make sure you do as it says.