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.

• 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

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

./do stop

./do start

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

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

Licensed under MIT