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Docker (Standalone)

Wasp Node using Docker

This page describes the configuration of a single Wasp node in combination with Docker. If you followed the instructions in Running a Node, you can skip to Configuring wasp-cli.

Introduction​

Running a Wasp Node​

Checkout the project, switch to 'develop' and build the main image:

git clone https://github.com/iotaledger/wasp.git
cd wasp
docker build -t wasp-node .

The build process will copy the docker_config.json file into the image, which will be used when the node gets started.

By default, the build process will use -tags rocksdb,builtin_static as a build argument. This argument can be modified with --build-arg BUILD_TAGS=<tags>.

Depending on the use case, Wasp requires a different GoShimmer hostname which can be changed at this part inside the docker_config.json file:

  "nodeconn": {
    "address": "goshimmer:5000"
  },

After the build process has finished, you can start your Wasp node by running:

docker run wasp-node

Configuration​

After the build process has been completed, it is still possible to inject a different configuration file into a new container by running:

docker run -v $(pwd)/alternative_docker_config.json:/etc/wasp_config.json wasp-node

You can also add further configuration using arguments:

docker run wasp-node --nodeconn.address=alt_goshimmer:5000

To get a list of all available arguments, run the node with the argument '--help'

docker run wasp-node --help