Piond for Docker

Docker image that runs the Pion piond 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 4 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/pioncoin/docker-piond/master/bootstrap-host.sh | sh -s trusty

Quick Start

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

    docker volume create --name=piond-data
    docker run -v piond-data:/pion --name=piond-node -d \
        -p 9953:9953 \
        -p 127.0.0.1:9954:9954 \
        pioncoin/piond
   

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

    $ docker ps
    CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                         COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                                              NAMES
    d0e1076b2dca        pioncoin/piond:latest          "pion_oneshot"      2 seconds ago       Up 1 seconds        127.0.0.1:9954->9953/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9954->9954/tcp   piond-node
   

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

    docker logs -f piond-node
   

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

Documentation

• To run in testnet, add environment variable TESTNET=1 to docker run as such:

    docker run -v piond-data:/pion --name=piond-node -d \
        --env TESTNET=1 \
        -p 19954:19954 \
        -p 127.0.0.1:19953:19953 \
        pioncoin/piond
  

• Additional documentation in the docs folder.

Credits

Original work by Kyle Manna https://github.com/kylemanna/docker-bitcoind. Modified to use Pion Core instead of Bitcoin Core.