I am so confused on how to properly startup questdb and have it properly deployed with authentication...

Hi and welcome! Maybe this might get you started with setting up Basic Auth for QuestDB: https://questdb.io/blog/2022/08/05/setting-basic-auth-nginx/

So I was looking at doing it this way but auth wise with ingesting and querying data where not just anyone can do it..

There is multiple config options to enable

readonly

: e.g. `http.security.readonly`or

pg.security.readonly

or a sepearate user with

pg.readonly.user.enabled

I am no longer talking about the panel portion im talking about like when I do node.js to write & query data how to properly make that under authentication

For ILP, authentication can be done by creating a JWT https://questdb.io/docs/reference/api/ilp/authenticate/