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- Overview
- Administering FlowForge
- Contributing to FlowForge
- FlowForge API
- FlowForge Cloud
- Using FlowForge
- Changing the Stack
- devices
- Environment Variables
- FlowForge Concepts
- FlowForge File Nodes
- FlowForge Persistent Context
- FlowForge Project Nodes
- Instance Settings
- Logging
- Migrating a Node-RED project to FlowForge
- Node-RED Tools plugin
- Shared Team Library
- Snapshots
- Staged Deployments
- Teams
- Running FlowForge
- Installing FlowForge
- Configuring FlowForge
- DNS Setup
- Docker install
- Email configuration
- First Run Setup
- FlowForge File Storage
- Install FlowForge on Kubernetes
- Local Install
- Upgrading FlowForge
# FlowForge File Nodes
Node-RED instances running within FlowForge include a set of nodes that make it possible to store files safely regardless of the environment. Cloud based instances can read and write to persistent storage using these nodes. Edge devices will store files on its local filesystem.
# Enabling Persistent File Storage
These nodes are enabled by default on the FlowForge Cloud platform. If you're running a self-hosted environment you should follow the next steps.
FlowForge file nodes replace the core Node-RED file nodes. To make use of these nodes, the FlowForge platform Administrator must ensure the core file nodes are not loaded.
This is done by adding 10-file-js in the Exclude nodes by filename
section of your instance settings under the Palette section.
This setting is modifiable only by a Team owner and only if it has not been locked in the template by the platform Administrator.
# Nodes
There are two nodes in the File Node collection:
file- A file node for writing to persistent storagefile in- A file node for reading from persistent storage
# Usage
Simply drop the file nodes into your flows as you would with the regular file nodes in Node-RED. There are some helpful built-in examples on the Import Examples dialog in Node-RED.
# Deployment Considerations
When a snapshot is deployed to a device, the original Node-RED file nodes are used and any files will be stored on the device's local filesystem.