README.md

The LinuxServer.io team brings you another container release featuring:

• regular and timely application updates
• easy user mappings (PGID, PUID)
• custom base image with s6 overlay
• weekly base OS updates with common layers across the entire LinuxServer.io ecosystem to minimise space usage, down time and bandwidth
• regular security updates

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• Blog - all the things you can do with our containers including How-To guides, opinions and much more!
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DEPRECATION NOTICE

This image is deprecated. We will not offer support for this image and it will not be updated. Please use the official IPFS container here: https://hub.docker.com/r/ipfs/go-ipfs When this project started the web interface was not integrated well with the default IPFS server. Now it is great and well maintained, hosting it on a static webserver does not make much sense anymore.

linuxserver/ipfs

Ipfs - A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to make the web faster, safer, and more open.

Supported Architectures

Our images support multiple architectures such as x86-64, arm64 and armhf. We utilise the docker manifest for multi-platform awareness. More information is available from docker here and our announcement here.

Simply pulling lscr.io/linuxserver/ipfs should retrieve the correct image for your arch, but you can also pull specific arch images via tags.

The architectures supported by this image are:

Architecture	Tag
x86-64	amd64-latest
arm64	arm64v8-latest
armhf	arm32v7-latest

Application Setup

In order to push files beyond your local gateway you have to make sure port 4001 is forwarded to the internet. This is required for IPFS peers to reach in and grab your files so public gateways can serve them.

Access the webui at http://localhost , if not using localhost scroll to the bottom of the page and set the API Address setting to IE http://192.168.1.10:5001 , from there you can upload and manage files you push to IPFS. Your gateway to access IPFS files is http://localhost:8080/ipfs/YOUR-FILE-HASH-HERE . You can also simply use public IPFS gateways like:

• Cloudflare - https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/YOUR-FILE-HASH-HERE
• IPFS.io - https://ipfs.io/ipfs/YOUR-FILE-HASH-HERE
• Eternum.io - https://ipfs.eternum.io/ipfs/YOUR-FILE-HASH-HERE

Cloudflare is a solid option as they actually edge cache the files on their CDN so even if your node pinning the item goes down for periods of time their cache will last up to a month.

For more on using IPFS please read the docs here

Usage

Here are some example snippets to help you get started creating a container.

docker-compose (recommended, click here for more info)

---
version: "2.1"
services:
  ipfs:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/ipfs
    container_name: ipfs
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/London
    volumes:
      - /path/to/data:/config
    ports:
      - 80:80
      - 4001:4001
      - 5001:5001
      - 8080:8080
      - 443:443 #optional
    restart: unless-stopped

docker cli (click here for more info)

docker run -d \
  --name=ipfs \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=Europe/London \
  -p 80:80 \
  -p 4001:4001 \
  -p 5001:5001 \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  -p 443:443 `#optional` \
  -v /path/to/data:/config \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  lscr.io/linuxserver/ipfs

Parameters

Container images are configured using parameters passed at runtime (such as those above). These parameters are separated by a colon and indicate <external>:<internal> respectively. For example, -p 8080:80 would expose port 80 from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port 8080 outside the container.

Parameter	Function
-p 80	The port for the IPFS web UI
-p 4001	Peering port, this is the only port you should expose to the internet
-p 5001	API port, the clientside webUI needs to be able to talk to this from whatever machine your web browser is on
-p 8080	Gateway Port, actually serves IPFS content
-p 443	HTTPS port for web UI
-e PUID=1000	for UserID - see below for explanation
-e PGID=1000	for GroupID - see below for explanation
-e TZ=Europe/London	Specify a timezone to use EG Europe/London
-v /config	IPFS storage and config files/logs

Environment variables from files (Docker secrets)

You can set any environment variable from a file by using a special prepend FILE__.

As an example:

-e FILE__PASSWORD=/run/secrets/mysecretpassword

Will set the environment variable PASSWORD based on the contents of the /run/secrets/mysecretpassword file.

Umask for running applications

For all of our images we provide the ability to override the default umask settings for services started within the containers using the optional -e UMASK=022 setting. Keep in mind umask is not chmod it subtracts from permissions based on it's value it does not add. Please read up here before asking for support.

User / Group Identifiers

When using volumes (-v flags) permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container, we avoid this issue by allowing you to specify the user PUID and group PGID.

Ensure any volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify and any permissions issues will vanish like magic.

In this instance PUID=1000 and PGID=1000, to find yours use id user as below:

  $ id username
    uid=1000(dockeruser) gid=1000(dockergroup) groups=1000(dockergroup)

Docker Mods

We publish various Docker Mods to enable additional functionality within the containers. The list of Mods available for this image (if any) as well as universal mods that can be applied to any one of our images can be accessed via the dynamic badges above.

Support Info

• Shell access whilst the container is running: docker exec -it ipfs /bin/bash
• To monitor the logs of the container in realtime: docker logs -f ipfs
• container version number
  • docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' ipfs
• image version number
  • docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' lscr.io/linuxserver/ipfs

Updating Info

Most of our images are static, versioned, and require an image update and container recreation to update the app inside. With some exceptions (ie. nextcloud, plex), we do not recommend or support updating apps inside the container. Please consult the Application Setup section above to see if it is recommended for the image.

Below are the instructions for updating containers:

Via Docker Compose

• Update all images: docker-compose pull
  • or update a single image: docker-compose pull ipfs
• Let compose update all containers as necessary: docker-compose up -d
  • or update a single container: docker-compose up -d ipfs
• You can also remove the old dangling images: docker image prune

Via Docker Run

• Update the image: docker pull lscr.io/linuxserver/ipfs
• Stop the running container: docker stop ipfs
• Delete the container: docker rm ipfs
• Recreate a new container with the same docker run parameters as instructed above (if mapped correctly to a host folder, your /config folder and settings will be preserved)
• You can also remove the old dangling images: docker image prune

Via Watchtower auto-updater (only use if you don't remember the original parameters)

• Pull the latest image at its tag and replace it with the same env variables in one run:

  docker run --rm \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  containrrr/watchtower \
  --run-once ipfs

• You can also remove the old dangling images: docker image prune

Note: We do not endorse the use of Watchtower as a solution to automated updates of existing Docker containers. In fact we generally discourage automated updates. However, this is a useful tool for one-time manual updates of containers where you have forgotten the original parameters. In the long term, we highly recommend using Docker Compose.

Image Update Notifications - Diun (Docker Image Update Notifier)

• We recommend Diun for update notifications. Other tools that automatically update containers unattended are not recommended or supported.

Building locally

If you want to make local modifications to these images for development purposes or just to customize the logic:

git clone https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-ipfs.git
cd docker-ipfs
docker build \
  --no-cache \
  --pull \
  -t lscr.io/linuxserver/ipfs:latest .

The ARM variants can be built on x86_64 hardware using multiarch/qemu-user-static

docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static:register --reset

Once registered you can define the dockerfile to use with -f Dockerfile.aarch64.

Versions

• 02.02.22: - Deprecate.
• 19.09.21: - Build webui from source. Update code formatting. Rebase to Alpine 3.14.
• 01.04.21: - Add migration bins to image to support upgrades.
• 24.02.20: - Rebase to Alpine 3.13.
• 09.07.19: - Initial version.