axed for Docker

Docker image that runs the axed 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 4 GB to store the block chain files
At least 1 GB RAM + 2 GB swap file

Recommended and tested on Vultr 1024 MB RAM/320 GB disk instance @ $8/mo. Vultr also accepts Bitcoin payments! May run on the 512 MB instance, but took forever (1+ week) to initialize due to swap and disk thrashing.

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/axerunners/docker-axed/master/bootstrap-host.sh | sh -s trusty

Quick Start

Create a axed-data volume to persist the axed blockchain data, should exit immediately. The axed-data container will store the blockchain when the node container is recreated (software upgrade, reboot, etc):
```
 docker volume create --name=axed-data
 docker run -v axed-data:/axe --name=axed-node -d \
     -p 9937:9937 \
     -p 127.0.0.1:9337:9337 \
     axerunners/axed
```

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

 $ docker ps
 CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                         COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                                              NAMES
 d0e1076b2dca        axerunners/axed:latest          "axe_oneshot"      2 seconds ago       Up 1 seconds        127.0.0.1:9337->9337/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9937->9937/tcp   axed-node

You can then access the daemon's output thanks to the docker logs command
```
 docker logs -f axed-node
```
Install optional init scripts for upstart and systemd are in the init directory.

Documentation

To run in testnet, add environment variable TESTNET=1 to docker run as such:

  docker run -v axed-data:/axe --name=axed-node -d \
      --env TESTNET=1 \
      -p 9937:9937 \
      -p 127.0.0.1:9337:9337 \
      axerunners/axed

Additional documentation in the docs folder.

Credits

Original work by Kyle Manna https://github.com/kylemanna/docker-bitcoind. Modified to use AXE Core instead of Bitcoin Core.

AXErunners / docker-axed