compscidr / chia-plotter-docker

Chia plotter image that uses ssh to sync plots back to a central store

chia-plotter

This image is solely meant for chia plotting. The idea is it is run remotely on machines and the plots are sent back to somewhere else to be farmed. This works well if the remote machine doesn't have alot of storage but can make plots quickly (ie: on digital ocean or something).

The farmer key and pool key can be set via env variables.

On the host machine running the container, you will need to set it up so that it has the ssh key of the machine you want to store the plots on, and it has the ssh config setup to use that key. For instance, you might have something like this:

Host myhost.host.com
  Hostname myhost.host.com
  User someuser
  IdentityFile: ~/.ssh/id_rsa

On the machine where the plots are stored, the corresponding key would be in the authorized_keys file.

From the host you should be able to do ssh myhost.host.com without using a password if this is setup correctly.

https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/compscidr/chia-plotter-docker

Running:

From dockerhub:

docker run -e FARMER_KEY=YOURFKEY \
  -e POOL_KEY=YOURPKEY \
  -e SYNC_HOST=HOST/IP FOR PLOTS TO END UP \
  -e SYNC_PATH=PATH FOR PLOTS TO END UP \
  -v HOST MACHINE SSH FOLDER:/root/.ssh \
  compscidr/chia-plotter-docker

For instance:

docker run -e FARMER_KEY=a9c6b0c8abef42313ca57338d0f112f5bf0d40cef0c1f7de3e8b0140c488c4cde58b38b8869bd42617b49811a95e4130 \
  -e POOL_KEY=b1eec16b3a2ce1d15937f0c076995a42a9c5435730d4d28010febc75075a392f6919d167c278095b10153cec9a9ec77f \
  -e SYNC_HOST=home.jasonernst.com \
  -e SYNC_PATH=/plots \
  -v ~/ssh:/root/.ssh \
  compscidr/chia-plotter-docker

Alternatively, use the docker-compose file, adjust the environment variables:

docker-compose up
docker-compose build

Changing the temp dir and plot dir

By default, plotting happens in /tmp and /plots on the container. After each plot it will clear the /plots after it has synced to the storage machine. You may still wish to have have this located in a different location (by default it would be /var/lib/docker/volumes on the host machine. )

You can control the location of the local (within container location of these directories with $TEMPDIR and $PLOTDIR), and then you can use mounts to change the location on the host machine. For instance:

docker run -e FARMER_KEY=YOURFKEY \
  -e POOL_KEY=YOURPKEY \
  -e SYNC_HOST=HOST/IP FOR PLOTS TO END UP \
  -e SYNC_PATH=PATH FOR PLOTS TO END UP \
  -v HOST MACHINE SSH FOLDER:/root/.ssh \
  -v /tmp:/tmp \
  -v /plots:/plots \
  compscidr/chia-plotter-docker