odarriba / docker-storj-multinode-dashboard

Unofficial docker image to use Storj Multinode Dashboard

Storj Multinode Dashboard Docker image

This is an unofficial docker image that make uses of official releases from Storj

This repository contains an unofficial Docker image for running Multinode Dashboard in a Docker environment, within an orchestration software like K8s or using Docker Compose.

You can find builds of this container named as odarriba/storj-multinode-dashboard on Docker Hub, cross built for amd64, armv7 and armv8.

The container tag of those builds is the Storj version number used in the build.

Getting started

First of all, generate the identity:

$ docker run --rm --entrypoint="create_identity" \
    -v /PATH/TO/IDENTITY:/root/.local/share/storj/identity \
    odarriba/storj-multinode-dashboard

Then, you need to generate the initial configuration:

$ docker run --rm \
    -v /PATH/TO/IDENTITY:/root/.local/share/storj/identity \
    -v /PATH/TO/CONFIG:/root/.local/share/storj/multinode \
    odarriba/storj-multinode-dashboard setup --console.address 0.0.0.0:15002

Note: we are changing the listening address because it will be working inside a Docker container. It is explained in the security considerations below.

and start the service:

$ docker run --rm \
    -v /PATH/TO/IDENTITY:/root/.local/share/storj/identity \
    -v /PATH/TO/CONFIG:/root/.local/share/storj/multinode \
    -p 127.0.0.1:15002:15002 \
    odarriba/storj-multinode-dashboard

After those steps you have your identity and configuration generated, and you can access the dashboard on your local port 15002.

Generate node API keys

To add your nodes, you can generate an API key on each one using the command:

$ docker exec -it storagenode \
    /app/storagenode issue-apikey --log.output stdout \
    --config-dir config --identity-dir identity

Security considerations

One of the steps described on this README consists in creating the configuration file passing a different parameter: --console.address 0.0.0.0:15002. That configuration changes how the Multinode Dashboard listens for requests, and allows anyone to call your dashboard.

This is required because the executable is running inside a Docker container and due to the Docker networking stack the requests you make to localhost:15002 are no longer localhost requests.

So it is strongly recommended that you avoid exposing this port to public Internet to avoid having third parties looking at your dashboards and exploiting future attacks that may (or not) arise in Storj software.

On the example above we are avoiding exposing the port to Internet using the parameter -p 127.0.0.1:15002:15002, but it can be easily changed at your own risk to expose it to outside your computer/server.

Development

This image is ready to do make cross-architecture builds. I'm currently using buildx for that, using this command line:

$ docker buildx build --platform linux/arm/v7,linux/arm64/v8,linux/amd64 --push --tag odarriba/storj-multinode-dashboard .

However, this is not really necessary unless you are making this kind of builds.

To build the container for your machine, just use the docker build command as usual.