Avoid Downloading Sample REST Devices with Docker-Compose

[zhshih]

Hello everyone,

I would like to know if there is a way to avoid downloading sample REST devices when installing REST devices via Docker-Compose.

Best regards,
Thank you.

[girigupt]

Sample profiles and sample devices are picked based on below configuration in configuration.toml
ProfilesDir: "./res/profiles"
DevicesDir: "./res/devices"
One of the ways could be to override these directories via env var ( APPLICATIONSETTINGS_PROFILESDIR: /res/provision/profile ( some diff dir with permissions)

I am assuming that these sample devices are always part of the docker image, so unless you want to build yourself after removing the samples, you will need to override using env vars

[zhshih]

Hi Girigupt, Thank you for your reply. I would like to know if the default profile and device are necessary for the Rest device. Is it possible to overwrite the profile with an empty folder? Thank you.

[girigupt]

The profiles and devices are just samples to help us get started. If you are building the image, you can just delete these files and then do the build. Note that after the device-service is started, deleting the profile and device definitions will not be of much help since they will have got read and stored. In that case, you can delete the devices via rest API of core-metadata and then delete the profile via REST

[zhshih]

I see. Thank you.