Bitcoind for Docker ===================

Docker image that runs the Bitcoin bitcoind node in a container for easy deployment.

Requirements

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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 700 GB to store the block chain files (and always growing!)
• At least 1 GB RAM + 2 GB swap file

Recommended and tested on unadvertised (only shown within control panel) Vultr SATA Storage 1024 MB RAM/250 GB disk instance @ $10/mo. Vultr also accepts Bitcoin payments!

Really Fast Quick Start

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One liner for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS machines with JSON-RPC enabled on localhost and adds upstart init script:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kylemanna/docker-bitcoind/master/bootstrap-host.sh | sh -s trusty

Quick Start

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

docker volume create --name=bitcoind-data docker run -v bitcoind-data:/bitcoin/.bitcoin --name=bitcoind-node -d \ -p 8333:8333 \ -p 127.0.0.1:8332:8332 \ kylemanna/bitcoind

• Verify that the container is running and bitcoind node is downloading the blockchain

$ docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES d0e1076b2dca kylemanna/bitcoind:latest "btc_oneshot" 2 seconds ago Up 1 seconds 127.0.0.1:8332->8332/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8333->8333/tcp bitcoind-node

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

docker logs -f bitcoind-node

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

Documentation

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• Additional documentation in the docs folder.