docker-ethereum

A Docker configuration with sane defaults for running a fully-validating Ethereum node, based on Alpine Linux.

Full support for regtest and backup-agent

Quick start

Requires that Docker be installed on the host machine.

# Create some directory where your ethereum data will be stored.
$ mkdir /home/youruser/ethereum_data

$ docker run --name ethereum -d \
   --volume /home/youruser/ethereum_data:/root/.ethereum \
   --publish 8545:8545 \
   --publish 8546:8546 \
   --publish 30303:30303 \
   --publish 9191:9191 \
   tiberiuc/ethereum

$ docker logs -f ethereum
[ ... ]

Configuration

configuration is done through command line arguments

docker run --name ethereum tiberiuc/ethereum --rpc --rpcaddr "0.0.0.0" --wsaddr "0.0.0.0" --rpcapi "db,admin,miner,eth,net,web3,debug,personal,shh,txpool" --ws --shh --ipcdisable --wsapi "db,admin,miner,debug,eth,net,web3,personal,shh,txpool" --wsorigins="*" --rpccorsdomain="*"

Daemonizing

Currently geth is run inside supervisor

Backup and restore

Backup

curl http://localhost:9191/backup -o ethereum.tgz

Restore

curl http://localhost:9191/restore --data-binary @./ethereum.tgz