Bitcoind for Docker

Docker image that runs a diamondd node in a container for easy deployment.

Requirements

• Physical machine, cloud instance, or VPS that supports Docker (i.e. Vultr, Digital Ocean, KVM or XEN based VMs) running Ubuntu 14.04 or later (not OpenVZ containers!)
• At least 40 GB to store the block chain files
• At least 1 GB RAM + 2 GB swap file

Recommended and tested on Vultr 1024 MB RAM/320 GB disk instance @ $8/mo. Vultr also accepts Bitcoin payments! May run on the 512 MB instance, but took forever (1+ week) to initialize due to swap and disk thrashing.

Really Fast Quick Start

One liner for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS machines with JSON-RPC enabled on localhost and adds upstart init script:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rpio/docker-diamondd/master/bootstrap-host.sh | sh -s trusty

Quick Start

1. Create a diamondd-data volume to persist the diamondd blockchain data, should exit immediately. The diamondd-data container will store the blockchain when the node container is recreated (software upgrade, reboot, etc):

    docker run --name=diamondd-data -v /diamond busybox chown 1000:1000 /diamond
    docker run --volumes-from=diamondd-data --name=diamondd-node -d \
        -p 17772:17772 \
        -p 127.0.0.1:17771:17771 \
        rpio/diamondd
   

2. Verify that the container is running and diamondd node is downloading the blockchain

    $ docker ps
    CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                         COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                                              NAMES
    d0e1076b2dca        rpio/diamondd:latest     "dmd_oneshot"       2 seconds ago       Up 1 seconds        127.0.0.1:17771->17771/tcp, 0.0.0.0:17772->17772/tcp   diamondd-node
   

3. You can then access the daemon's output thanks to the docker logs command

    docker logs -f diamondd-node
   

4. Install optional init scripts for upstart and systemd are in the init directory.

Documentation

• Additional documentation in the docs folder.