Docker images

Docker images for end-users are generated and published automatically to Docker Hub from the Nimbus-eth2 CI, by a GitHub action, whenever a new release is tagged in Git.

We have version-specific Docker tags (statusim/nimbus-eth2:amd64-v1.2.3) and a tag for the latest image (statusim/nimbus-eth2:amd64-latest).

These images are simply the contents of release tarballs inside a debian:bullseye-slim image, running under a user imaginatively named user, with UID:GID of 1000:1000.

The unpacked archive is in /home/user/nimbus-eth2 which is also the default WORKDIR. The default ENTRYPOINT is the binary itself: /home/user/nimbus-eth2/build/nimbus\_beacon\_node

Usage

You need to create an external data directory and mount it as a volume inside the container, with mounting point: /home/user/nimbus-eth2/build/data

mkdir data
docker run -it --rm -v ${PWD}/data:/home/user/nimbus-eth2/build/data statusim/nimbus-eth2:amd64-latest [nimbus_beacon_node args here]

Wrapper script

If you wish, you can choose to use a wrapper script instead:

mkdir data
docker run -it --rm -v ${PWD}/data:/home/user/nimbus-eth2/build/data -e WEB3_URL="wss://mainnet.infura.io/ws/v3/YOUR_TOKEN" --entrypoint /home/user/nimbus-eth2/run-mainnet-beacon-node.sh statusim/nimbus-eth2:amd64-latest [nimbus_beacon_node args here]

Docker compose

Our preferred setup is using docker-compose. You can use one of our example configuration files as a base for your own custom configuration:

mkdir data
docker-compose -f docker-compose-example1.yml up --quiet-pull --no-color --detach

Note: The rather voluminous logging is done on stdout, so you might want to change the system-wide Docker logging defaults (which dumps everything in /var/lib/docker/containers/CONTAINER_ID/CONTAINER_ID-json.log) to something like syslog. We recommend using a log rotation system with appropriate intervals for logs of this size.