danielalexiuc / lightning-charge-docker

Docker-Compose for production (Let's encrypt + NGINX + lightning charged + C-Lightning + Bitcoin Core)

Lightning Charge Docker-Compose

Introduction

This repository is meant to have an easy to host docker-compose suitable for production environment of c-lightning.

It is basically a combinaison of:

• LightningD
• Lightning Charged
• Bitcoin Core
• NGINX
• Let's encrypt automatic renewal

The following environment variable are used:

• NBITCOIN_NETWORK: the blockchain identifier used by NBitcoin (eg., regtest, testnet, mainnet)
• CHARGED_HOST: the external url used to access the NGINX server from internet. This domain name must point to this machine for Let's Encrypt to create your certificate. (typically with a CNAME or A record)
• LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL: The email Let's Encrypt will use to notify you about certificate expiration.
• ACME_CA_URI: Let's encrypt API endpoint (https://acme-staging.api.letsencrypt.org/directory for a staging certificate, https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/directory for a production one)
• CHARGED_ALIAS: the lignthning node alias
• CHARGED_IP: the public ip of this node