fooock / deploy-ipfs-docker

Deploy and test IPFS using Docker

IPFS on Docker

Deploy IPFS with Docker using make. You can customize multiple things.

Requirements

You only need:

• Docker
• Make

If you have Ubuntu, to install make simply use:

$ sudo apt-get install make

Build params

You can customize multiple params. See next table.

Param	Description	Default value
NAME	Name of the docker image	ipfs-host
STAGING_DIR	The maximum amount of memory the container can use	$HOME/ipfs/staging
DATA_DIR	The amount of memory this container is allowed to swap to disk	$HOME/ipfs/data
COMMAND	Specify how much of the available CPU resources a container can use	version
RES	Specify how much of the available CPU resources a container can use

Targets

You can execute these targets:

Param	Description
build	Pull the image and create the directory to store ipfs data
start	Start the IPFS daemon
logs	Show the IPFS logs
command	Execute an IPFS command. For example, version
add	Add a file or directory to IPFS
stop	Stop and clean the IPFS docker container

Example

If you want to add a directory from the current directory like:

.
├── test
│   └── b.txt

Then

$  make RES=test add
docker exec ipfs-host ipfs add -r /export/test
added QmeQkPj49FbmJ5BPjzg5GWS3VKmLP88f15n5zkzsSf4fKM test/b.txt
added QmPRhop3GJ4FyEzBNWM9JKVG4Hm1v4HKdyvfEUHdytHb7P test