Clickhouse Server Deploy Guide

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Warning

Don't use certificates from this guide in production! They are real, but publicly available ❗

This guide will help you quickly deploy a clickhouse server with SSL encryption and a grafana monitoring with SSL encryption. For grafana configuration, see this official guide

Navigation

• 🔐 Certificate Notes
• 📝 Env
• 👌 Default
  • Quick start
  • Volumes
  • Ports
  • Files
• 🚀 Auto-certificate [✍️ self-signed]
  • Quick start
  • Volumes
  • Ports
  • Files
• 🏭 Chproxy
  • Quick start
  • Volumes
  • Ports
  • Config
  • Files
• ⚠️ Insecure (http)
  • Quick start
  • Volumes
  • Ports
  • Files
• 🛠️ Setup After Creation

🔐 Certificate Notes

This guide provides information on both normal SSL certificates and self-signed certificates. When referring to self-signed certificates, I will use the [✍️ self-signed] note in the text. Please note that for local development on localhost, you must follow the procedure for self-signed certificates.

Generate [✍️ self-signed] certificate:

openssl req -subj "/CN=localhost" -new -newkey rsa:2048 -days 1095 -nodes -x509 -keyout <name>.key -out <name>.crt

Change access rights to .key file (must be 644 or stricter):

chmod 644 <name>.key

📝 Env

• CLICKHOUSE_DB - database for clickhouse (default: default)
• CLICKHOUSE_USER - user for clickhouse
• CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD - password for clickhouse
• GRAFANA_USER - user for grafana
• GRAFANA_PASSWORD - password for grafana
• GRAFANA_UID - user with permission to access and write to the volume folder, see docs and this issue (default: 0)

See .env file for demo

👌 Default

Quick start

Start:

docker-compose up

Connection:

echo "SELECT 1" | curl 'https://ch-user:ch-password@localhost:8443' --data-binary @-

# [✍️ self-signed]
echo "SELECT 1" | curl 'https://ch-user:ch-password@localhost:8443' --data-binary @- --insecure

./clickhouse client --host localhost --port 9440 --user ch-user --password ch-password --secure

# [✍️ self-signed]
./clickhouse client --host localhost --port 9440 --user ch-user --password ch-password --secure --accept-invalid-certificate

DataGrip:

• Port: 8443
• User: ch-user
• Password: ch-password
• Database: default
• Advance -> ssl: true
• Advance -> sslmode: STRICT or NONE for [✍️ self-signed]

Grafana: https://localhost:3000

Volumes

• clickhouse-data - persistent data for clickhouse
• clickhouse-users.xml - users for clickhouse
• clickhouse-config-ssl.xml - config for clickhouse, modified for SSL
• grafana-data - persistent data for grafana
• certificate/clickhouse - SSL certificate for clickhouse
• certificate/grafana - SSL certificate for grafana

Ports

• 8443 - https port (encrypted)
• 9440 - native port (encrypted)
• 3000 - grafana port (encrypted)

Files

• .env
• docker-compose.yml
• docker/:
  • clickhouse-users.xml
  • clickhouse-config-ssl.xml
  • certificate/:
    • clickhouse/:
      • clickhouse.crt
      • clickhouse.key
    • grafana/:
      • grafana.crt
      • grafana.key

🚀 Auto-certificate [✍️ self-signed]

Quick start

Start:

docker-compose -f docker-compose-auto.yml up

Connection:

echo "SELECT 1" | curl 'https://ch-user:ch-password@localhost:8443' --data-binary @-

# [✍️ self-signed]
echo "SELECT 1" | curl 'https://ch-user:ch-password@localhost:8443' --data-binary @- --insecure

./clickhouse client --host localhost --port 9440 --user ch-user --password ch-password --secure

# [✍️ self-signed]
./clickhouse client --host localhost --port 9440 --user ch-user --password ch-password --secure --accept-invalid-certificate

DataGrip:

• Port: 8443
• User: ch-user
• Password: ch-password
• Database: default
• Advance -> ssl: true
• Advance -> sslmode: STRICT or NONE for [✍️ self-signed]

Grafana: https://localhost:3000

Volumes

• clickhouse-data - persistent data for clickhouse
• clickhouse-users.xml - users for clickhouse
• clickhouse-config-ssl.xml - config for clickhouse, modified for SSL
• grafana-data - persistent data for grafana
• certificate/grafana - SSL certificate for grafana

Ports

• 8443 - https port (encrypted)
• 9440 - native port (encrypted)
• 3000 - grafana port (encrypted)

Files

• .env
• auto.Dockerfile
• docker-compose-auto.yml
• docker/:
  • clickhouse-users.xml
  • clickhouse-config-ssl.xml
  • certificate/grafana/:
    • grafana.crt
    • grafana.key

🏭 Chproxy

Warning In this scenario, you can only connect using the https protocol, not the native protocol

Quick start

Start:

docker-compose -f docker-compose-chproxy.yml up

Connection:

echo "SELECT 1" | curl 'https://chproxy-user:chproxy-password@localhost:9090' --data-binary @-

# [✍️ self-signed]
echo "SELECT 1" | curl 'https://chproxy-user:chproxy-password@localhost:9090' --data-binary @- --insecure

DataGrip:

• Port: 9090
• User: chproxy-user
• Password: chproxy-password
• Database: default
• Advance -> ssl: true
• Advance -> sslmode: STRICT or NONE for [✍️ self-signed]

Grafana: https://localhost:3000

Volumes

• chproxy-config.yml - chproxy config
• chproxy-certificate - SSL certificate for chproxy
• clickhouse-data - persistent data for clickhouse
• clickhouse-users.xml - users for clickhouse
• clickhouse-config.xml - config for clickhouse, unmodified
• grafana-data - persistent data for grafana
• certificate/grafana - SSL certificate for grafana

Ports

• 9090 - chproxy port (encrypted)
• 3000 - grafana port (encrypted)

Config

• autocert - Let's Encrypt SSL certificate
• cert_file and key_file - any other SSL certificate
• allowed_networks - list of allowed networks, highly recommended to use

Files

• .env
• docker-compose-chproxy.yml
• docker/:
  • chproxy-config.yml
  • chproxy-certificate:
    • chproxy.crt
    • chproxy.key
  • clickhouse-users.xml
  • clickhouse-config.xml
  • certificate/grafana/:
    • grafana.crt
    • grafana.key

⚠️ Insecure (http)

Caution

Don't use this method because http traffic is not encrypted and can be intercepted

Quick start

Start:

docker-compose -f docker-compose-insecure.yml up

Connection:

echo "SELECT 1" | curl 'http://ch-user:ch-password@localhost:8123' --data-binary @-

./clickhouse client --host localhost --port 9000 --user ch-user --password ch-password

DataGrip:

• Port: 8123
• User: ch-user
• Password: ch-password
• Database: default
• Advance -> ssl: false

Grafana: http://localhost:3000

Volumes

• clickhouse-data - persistent data for clickhouse
• clickhouse-users.xml - users for clickhouse
• clickhouse-config.xml - config for clickhouse, unmodified
• grafana-data - persistent data for grafana

Ports

• 8123 - http port (unencrypted)
• 9000 - native port (unencrypted)
• 3000 - grafana port (unencrypted)

Files

• .env
• docker-compose-insecure.yml
• docker/:
  • clickhouse-users.xml
  • clickhouse-config.xml

Setup After Creation

1. Create user for grafana:

   CREATE USER grafana IDENTIFIED BY '<password>' SETTINGS PROFILE 'monitoring';
   GRANT SHOW TABLES, SELECT ON default.* TO grafana;  -- or any other database or specific tables

2. In grafana open Connections -> Data sources -> Add data source -> ClickHouse and setup it:

   Server address: clickhouse
   Server port: 9440
   Protocol: Native
   Secure Connection: true
   Username: grafana
   Password: <password>
   Skip TLS Verify: <depends on certificate>

   Then go to Dashboards tab (in current datasource, see above) and import first 3 dashboards (name starts with "ClickHouse")
3. It is highly recommended to create a new user for your project and grant him only the necessary rights (insert, create, etc.), for example:

   CREATE USER importer IDENTIFIED BY '<password>' SETTINGS async_insert = 1;
   GRANT SHOW TABLES, SELECT, INSERT, CREATE TABLE ON default.* TO importer;