Private Ethereum Network in Docker

It's a repository to create Private ethereum blockchain network with 10 nodes in a docker container.

Getting started

1. Installing

1.1. Standalone Ethereum node

Prerequisites

Docker Toolbox installed.

To download and install Docker Toolbox for your environment please follow the Docker Toolbox instructions.

After Docker Toolbox has been installed, create a default machine to run Docker against.

Lets go

To run a single test Ethereum node run the following:

$ docker-compose -f docker-compose-standalone.yml up -d

If using docker-machine you should be able to get to the JSON RPC client by doing:

open http://$(docker-machine ip default):8545

Scaling the number of nodes/containers in the cluster

You can scale the number of Ethereum nodes by running:

docker-compose scale eth=3

Test accounts ready for use

As part of the bootstrapping process we bootstrap 10 Ethereum accounts for use pre-filled with 100 Ether for use in transactions by default.

If you want to change the amount of Ether for those accounts See files/genesis.json.

2. Interact with geth

To get attached to the geth JavaScript console on the node you can run the following

docker exec -it privateethereumdocker_geth_1 geth attach ipc://root/.ethereum/devchain/geth.ipc

Then you can miner.start(), and then check to see if it's mining by inspecting web3.eth.mining.