Docker-ized bitcoind server

Installation

Prerequisities

• grab some VPS (tested Digital Ocean with Ubuntu 13.10) - min 30GB disk, 2GB mem
• install Docker
• don't worry about losing containers, all esential data will be persistent in the main host filesystem
  • technically essential data folders will be mapped via docker volumes to /var/lib/bitcoind-docker/*

Installation

Following script will build and add a new container in your docker:

1. binaryage/bitcoind which is (bitcoind with mapped database to host's /var/lib/bitcoind-docker/bitcoind)

Steps:

git clone git@github.com:binaryage/bitcoind-docker.git
cd bitcoind-docker
touch .env
echo "export BITCOIND_RPC_USER=some_user" >> .env
echo "export BITCOIND_RPC_PASSWORD=some_password" >> .env
./do build
./do run

Note: Inspect etc/env and see more overrides you can add to your custom .env

Stop

./do stop

Start

./do start

Upgrade

./do stop
git pull
./do build
./do rm
./do run

RPC

./do rpc getinfo

note: if you get error about connection to bitcoind, it may be that bitcoind is reindexing/parsing blockchaing at the beginning. Give it some time after you run/start the container.

Credits

• Docker is awesome!
• Inspiration from srid's discourse-docker

Licensed under MIT