IPFS RPi in a Docker container

A bare bones IPFS installer for the Raspberry Pi and other ARM-based devices working in a Docker container

Installation

./run_image.sh

IPFS ports are exposed on:

• 15001
• 14001
• 18080

Volumes mapping

• shared: shared volume to add, get files between the host and the CLI
• repo: the IPFS repository

Web interface:

Open a browser at: http://host-ip:15001/ipfs/QmcB9KLBaivEU1NLpXH2UswDWQT23E1CbAcTsZprZqcho6#/files/

To read a file from the network: http://host-ip:18080/ipfs/Qmd4CVn3EgC1VQcF9dc2Y49pp7CuJKQe82pUS6ZnAo7abY

CLI

Note: you can jsut type ipfs instead of sudo docker exec -it ipfs

ex:

sudo docker exec -it ipfs ipfs pin ls --type recursive
ipfs pin ls --type recursive

Use the /shared volume to add files in the unixfs:

cp -r mymovies shared/
sudo docker exec -it ipfs ipfs add -r /shared/mymovies/
added QmbFMke1KXqnYyBBWxB74N4c5SBnJMVAiMNRcGu6x1AwQH mymovies/movie1.avi
added Qmd4CVn3EgC1VQcF9dc2Y49pp7CuJKQe82pUS6ZnAo7abY mymovies/movie2.avi
added QmVRafFA8Qv4nGqRhUdDXDNn58hLQZTkSQ9YeYViDHJbGV mymovies

sudo docker exec -it ipfs ipfs files cp /ipfs/QmVRafFA8Qv4nGqRhUdDXDNn58hLQZTkSQ9YeYViDHJbGV /
sudo docker exec -it ipfs ipfs files mv /QmVRafFA8Qv4nGqRhUdDXDNn58hLQZTkSQ9YeYViDHJbGV /cool_movies

To pin a file locally:

sudo docker exec -it ipfs ipfs pin add QmbFMke1KXqnYyBBWxB74N4c5SBnJMVAiMNRcGu6x1AwQH
sudo docker exec -it ipfs ipfs pin ls --type recursive

Acknowledgements

Thanks a lot to Claudio Bizzotto (fork from https://github.com/claudiobizzotto/ipfs-rpi) and Analog Void (https://github.com/analogvoid/rpi-ipfs) for the original code