Astrad for Docker

Docker image that runs the AstraCore astrad 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 ASTRAchain 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/AstraCore/docker-astrad/master/bootstrap-host.sh | sh -s trusty

Quick Start

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

    docker volume create --name=astrad-data
    docker run -v astrad-data:/astra --name=astrad-node -d \
        -p 5878:5878 \
        -p 127.0.0.1:6940:6940 \
        astra/astrad
   

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

    $ docker ps
    CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                         COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                                              NAMES
    d0e1076b2dca        astra/astrad:latest     "astra_oneshot"       2 seconds ago       Up 1 seconds        127.0.0.1:6940->6940/tcp, 0.0.0.0:5878->5878/tcp   astrad-node
   

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

    docker logs -f astrad-node
   

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

Documentation

• Additional documentation in the docs folder.