docker-bitcoinxt's Introduction

Bitcoinxt for Docker

Docker image that runs a bitcoinxt 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 40 GB to store the block chain files
At least 1 GB RAM + 2 GB swap file

Quick Start

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 run --name=bitcoind-data -v /bitcoin busybox chown 1000:1000 /bitcoin

 docker run --volumes-from=bitcoind-data --name=bitcoind-node -d \
   -p 8333:8333 \
   -p 127.0.0.1:8332:8332 \
   5an1ty/bitcoinxt
```

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

 $ docker ps
 CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                         COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                                              NAMES
 d0e1076b2dca        5an1ty/bitcoinxt: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
```
You can pass any parameters you want to the bitcoinxt process using the docker run command:

For a list of command-line arguments: Command-line Reference

Example to enable stealth mode:

    docker run --volumes-from=bitcoind-data --name=bitcoind-node -d \
      -p 8333:8333 \
      -p 127.0.0.1:8332:8332 \
      5an1ty/bitcoinxt \
      -rpcallowip=::/0 -stealth-mode