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title: Installation Guide
---

## How-To

Here's an example of a default installation of zigbee2mqtt. Pay particular attention to the section "Configure Mount USB Devices" to configure the USB adapter to your container as those two paths should match.

### Deployment Configuration

Set `ZIGBEE2MQTT_CONFIG_MQTT_USER`, `ZIGBEE2MQTT_CONFIG_MQTT_PASSWORD` if necessary, as this will override the specific value of config file. Leave empty if you plan to use custom config or you don't have set a user on your MQTT broker.

For `MQTT Server` Internal DNS Cluster IP can be used (default) of `mqtt://mosquitto.mosquitto.svc.cluster.local` or you can use the external IP.

```yaml
workload:
  main:
    podSpec:
      containers:
        main:
          env:
            USE_CUSTOM_CONFIG_FILE: false
            # This values are required for the autogenerated file to work.
            # ZIGBEE2MQTT_CONFIG_PERMIT_JOIN: false
            ZIGBEE2MQTT_CONFIG_MQTT_SERVER: "mqtt://mosquitto.mosquitto.svc.cluster.local"
            ZIGBEE2MQTT_CONFIG_MQTT_BASE_TOPIC: "zigbee2mqtt"
            ZIGBEE2MQTT_CONFIG_SERIAL_PORT: "/dev/ttyUSB0"
            ZIGBEE2MQTT_CONFIG_SERIAL_ADAPTER: "auto"
            ZIGBEE2MQTT_CONFIG_MQTT_USER: "mqtt_user"
            ZIGBEE2MQTT_CONFIG_MQTT_PASSWORD: "secretpassword"
```

### Mount USB Devices

- Passthrough your USB device to your cluster node.
- Add a persistence configuration for your USB device
- Best practice is to do by ID as per below, in this example we use `/dev/serial/by-id/usb-ithead_SONOFF`

```yaml
persistence:
  zigbee:
    enabled: true
    type: device
    hostPath: /dev/serial/by-id/usb-ithead_SONOFF
```