zcashd for Docker

Docker image that runs the Zcash zcashd 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 100 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

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-zcashd/master/bootstrap-host.sh | sh -s trusty

Quick Start

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

    docker volume create --name=zcashd-data
    docker run -v zcashd-data:/zcash --name=zcashd-node -d \
        -p 8233:8233 \
        -p 127.0.0.1:8232:8232 \
        kylemanna/zcashd
   

2. Verify that the container is running and zcashd node is downloading the blockchain

    $ docker ps
    CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                         COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                                              NAMES
    d0e1076b2dca        kylemanna/zcashd:latest     "zec_oneshot"       2 seconds ago       Up 1 seconds        127.0.0.1:8232->8232/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8233->8233/tcp   zcashd-node
   

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

    docker logs -f zcashd-node
   

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

Documentation

• Additional documentation in the docs folder.