Docker image that runs the Pion piond node in a container for easy deployment.
- 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.
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
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Create a
piond-data
volume to persist the piond blockchain data, should exit immediately. Thepiond-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
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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
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You can then access the daemon's output thanks to the docker logs command
docker logs -f piond-node
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Install optional init scripts for upstart and systemd are in the
init
directory.
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To run in testnet, add environment variable
TESTNET=1
todocker 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
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Additional documentation in the docs folder.
Original work by Kyle Manna https://github.com/kylemanna/docker-bitcoind. Modified to use Pion Core instead of Bitcoin Core.