Lava docker support

Lava Network offers Docker support to simplify deployment and management of its nodes and services. Key features include:

Containerized Environment: Run Lava components in isolated containers for improved consistency and portability.
Easy Setup: Quickly deploy Lava nodes using pre-configured Docker images.
Scalability: Easily scale your Lava infrastructure by spinning up additional containers as needed.
Resource Efficiency: Optimize resource usage by running multiple Lava services on a single host.
Cross-platform Compatibility: Deploy Lava nodes consistently across different operating systems and environments.

Different Lava configuration setups

The compose files are ordered in sub-folders and can be simply run with:

docker compose -f <compose-file> up -d

The best way to deploy the Lava echo-system is via docker-compose.

Requirments:

To start using the compose files see the examples under the docker/ directory:

/state-sync - running a node by state-syncing with another.
/from-snapshot - running a node by downloading an exising snapshot and syncing.
/new-node - running a fresh node from scratch.
/load-balancing - running multiple providers load-balanced by Nginx proxy

In order to buid the Lava docker image follow these steps:

Download the lava sources:

git clone https://github.com/lavanet/lava.git

Build the appropriate Lava docker image locally

docker buildx build -f cmd/lavad/Dockerfile .
docker buildx build -f cmd/lavad/Dockerfile.Cosmovisor .
docker buildx build -f cmd/lavap/Dockerfile .