Dogecoin Core in a Docker container

Run a Dogecoin fullnode in a Docker container / swarm stack

But why should I do that?!

• To support the Dogecoin community.
• Just for the sake of doing it.
• Because it's fun.

How to install

Make sure that port 22556 is being forwarded on your router!

It's not that hard, actually. There are two ways to get it up and running:

Pull and run the image from the Docker Store

You can deploy a stack in Docker swarm mode

docker stack deploy -c docker-stack.yml dogecoin

Or also deploy standalone containers

docker run -p 22556:22556 -v /mnt/ssd/dogecoin:/home/dogecoin/.dogecoin jkubo/dogecoin-core:latest

Change the value for /mnt/ssd/dogecoin above to an absolute path on your system where Dogecoin Core can store the blockchain data.

It is possible to run without a volume, however the blockchain data will be deleted each time you run it. This may not be wise as it can take days to download the full blockchain.

Boom, your Dogecoin node is up and running!

Custom command line arguments

By default, the image runs dogecoind -printtoconsole as the command. You can customize the command arguments if desired.
Here's an example of a customized command argument for -maxuploadtarget=20000.

docker run -p 22556:22556 -v /mnt/ssd/dogecoin:/home/dogecoin/.dogecoin jkubo/dogecoin-core:latest dogecoind -printtoconsole -maxuploadtarget=20000

How to build

The build assumes the web links for Dogecoin Core will be consistent: https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/releases

Given that, version must be specified on the commandline. The build is run as follows:

sudo docker build --build-arg version=1.14.6 . -t=dogecoin-core:latest

Optional: kickstart the node with a bootstrap file

Initial sync may take a looooong time (total blockchain size as of writing is over 50 GB!). That's why it may be useful to have a bootstrap file to make the initial sync process a little faster.

You can get the bootstrap.dat file from:

• this reddit thread)

Sit back and relax while it's downloading. It's a large file, so it may take some time.

Copy the bootstrap.dat file to the mapped volume directory as shown above, /localfolder/dogevolume is our example.

Once the node has imported the bootstrap.dat file, it'll be renamed to bootstrap.dat.old.

TO THE MOON!!!