Docker TOR and a Bunch of Containers

Playing around with the Denarius wallet daemon and really wanted to run denariusd wallet, tor, and electrumx under docker. But its a bit of a pain to run electrumx as the server needs to compact history at least every 2 weeks. I also wanted to run tor without installing anything so this node could also act as an onion node with hidden services. Maybe eventually turning the electrumx server into an onion server as well if people want that.

So basically run docker tor I made. I made a debian slim version under latest branch or alpine version under alpine branch. https://github.com/buzzkillb/dockertor

docker run -d --name tor --net host -v /etc/tor/torrc:/etc/tor/torrc buzzkillb/tor:alpine

Then run denariusd

docker run \
  --net=host \
  --name=denariusd \
  -t -d \
  -p 33369:33369 \
  -p 32369:32369 \
  -v ~/.denarius:/data \
  -P buzzkillb/denariusd:latest

Then run electrumx after fully syncing.

docker run \
  --name=electrumx \
  --net=host \
  --ulimit nofile=5120:5120 \
  -t -d \
  -v ~/electrumx:/data \
  -e DAEMON_URL=http://denariusrpc:PASSWORDFROMDENARIUS.CONF@127.0.01:32369 \
  -e COIN=Denarius \
  -p 50001:50001 \
  -p 50002:50002 \
  buzzkillb/docker-electrumx:latest

Then stop electrumx and run the compaction once.

docker run \
  --name=electrumx-compact \
  --net=host \
  --ulimit nofile=5120:5120 \
  -t -d \
  -v ~/electrumx:/data \
  -e DAEMON_URL=http://denariusrpc:RPCPASSWORD@127.0.01:32369 \
  -e COIN=Denarius \
  -p 50002:50002 \
  buzzkillb/docker-electrumx:dcompact

Then restart electrumx server. And like that its all setup. Then make a crontab like so.

0 0 * * * docker stop electrumx >/dev/null 2>&1
1 0 * * * docker start electrumx-compact >/dev/null 2>&1
6 0 * * * docker start electrumx >/dev/null 2>&1

And you now have an electrumx server running denariusd as an onion node. The above steps can be forked, tweaked and able to run on whatever bitcoin fork.

reference - ElectrumX Server Setup Guide [Docker]