Laying the Foundation

Create several directories to persist configurations, logs & data

You’ll most likely use different directory names – keep in mind that you have to update the docker-compose.yaml too

/share/Container/home-assistant	Home Assistant configuration
/share/Container/influxdb	InfluxDB Data & Config
/share/Container/grafana/log	Grafana Logs
/share/Container/grafana/data	Grafana Data

Basic configuration

InfluxDB

Generate the default config for InfluxDB

docker run --rm influxdb:1.2-alpine influxd config > influxdb.conf

Now move the influxdb.conf to your config directory (in my case /share/Container/influxdb)

Home Assistant If no configuration is found, Home Assistant will create a basic configuration itself after the container has started.