The BitcoinHD Core docker image.
- 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 10 GB to store the block chain files (and always growing!)
- At least 1 GB RAM + 2 GB swap file
One liner for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS machines with JSON-RPC enabled on localhost and adds upstart init script:
curl https://github.com/raw/btchd/docker-btchdd/master/bootstrap-host.sh | sh -s trusty
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Create a
btchdd-data
volume to persist the btchdd blockchain data, should exit immediately. Thebtchdd-data
container will store the blockchain when the node container is recreated (software upgrade, reboot, etc):docker volume create --name=btchdd-data docker run -v btchdd-data:/btchd --name=btchdd-node -d \ -p 8733:8733 \ -p 127.0.0.1:8732:8732 \ btchd/btchdd
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Verify that the container is running and btchdd node is downloading the blockchain
$ docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES d0e1076b2dca btchd/btchdd:latest "btchd_oneshot" 2 seconds ago Up 1 seconds 127.0.0.1:8732->8732/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8733->8733/tcp btchdd-node
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You can then access the daemon's output thanks to the docker logs command
docker logs -f btchdd-node
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Install optional init scripts for upstart and systemd are in the
init
directory.
- Additional documentation in the docs folder.