Docker-ized Electrum server

Electrum is a great light-weight Bitcoin client. It connects to dozen servers provided by enthustiasts.

This is an easy way how to run your own Electrum server and help to diversify Bitcoin infrastructure.

Installation

Prerequisities

• grab some VPS (tested Digital Ocean with Ubuntu 13.10) - min 30GB disk, 2GB mem
• install Docker
• don't worry about losing containers, all esential data will be persistent in main host filesystem
  • technically essential data folders will be mapped via docker volumes to /var/lib/electrum-server-docker/*
    • bitcoind's database, electrum's data, leveldb and cerificates

Installation

Following script will build and add two new containers in your docker:

1. electrum-bitcoind (bitcoind with mapped database to host's /var/lib/electrum-server-docker/bitcoind)
2. electrum-server (electrum-server with mapped database to host's /var/lib/electrum-server-docker/electrum/*)

Steps:

git clone [email protected]:binaryage/electrum-server-docker.git
cd electrum-server-docker
touch .env
echo "export BITCOIND_RPC_USER=some_user" >> .env
echo "export BITCOIND_RPC_PASSWORD=some_password" >> .env
./do setup
./do build
./do run

Note: Inspect etc/env and see more overrides you can add to your custom .env

Stop

./do stop

Start

./do start

Upgrade

./do stop
git pull
./do build
./do rm
./do run

Credits

• Docker is awesome!
• Electrum guys rock
• Inspiration from srid's discourse-docker

Licensed under MIT