kriation / docker-ethminer

A docker container with a CUDA enabled build of ethminer

ethminer

This container is a CUDA enabled build of ethereum-mining/ethminer. It tracks the head of the master branch at build time. I used the guidance provided in the build.md of the repository to put this image together.

Tip Jar

If you're using this container image, tips in eth are appreciated! 0xAe26Cd1573745236807E67cE3be34Ca4226f4cF3

Overview

To minimize the complexity of pulling in the required dependencies and minimizing the size of the image, I use the nvidia/cuda devel image to build the ethminer binary. In the second stage, I copy the build artifacts to a new image dependent on nvidia/cuda runtime.

The entrypoint for the final image is /opt/ethminer/ethminer.

This provides the ability to pass arguments at container execution time. For example:

$ docker run --gpus all -it kriation/ethminer:latest --list-devices


ethminer 0.19.0+commit.47ae149e
Build: linux/release/gnu

 Id Pci Id    Type Name                          CUDA SM   Total Memory
 --- --------- ---- ----------------------------- ---- ---  ------------
   0 01:00.0   Gpu  GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER        Yes  7.5       1.52 GB

The prerequisite to using this image is that the NVIDIA container toolkit is configured properly on the container host. The documentation from NVIDIA on setting the toolkit up is straightforward.

Build

For those interested in building a custom image that isn't available in Docker Hub, you can pass a build argument of CUDA_VERSION set to any of the tags listed in the CUDA Supported Tags documentation.

An example is below:

$ docker build --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=10.0 -t kriation/ethminer:10.0 .

The resulting image will be based off of the CUDA 10.0 base.