How to install IOTA node with docker

INTRODUCTION

IOTA has a official full node project named iri. It is a java open-source project (github)

Today there are 2 versions of iri:

  • 1.5.x STABLE with full snapshot feature
  • 1.6.x RELEASE CANDIDATE with local snapshot feature

Into this tutorial we will install STABLE version

REQUIREMENTS

There are two common solutions to install IOTA node:

I prefer docker installation. So you must have docker into your 64-bit system.


Docker official installation guide links:

After that you must install docker compose tool

DOCKER-COMPOSE

Docker compose is a yaml file with docker container declarations, we must use follow file named docker-compose.yml:

version: "2"

services:
  iri:
    image: iotaledger/iri:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./data/iri/iri.ini:/iri/conf/iri.ini:ro
      - ./data/iri/ixi:/iri/ixi:rw
      - ./data/iri/db:/iri/data:rw
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    environment:
      - JAVA_MAX_MEMORY=4096m
      - JAVA_MIN_MEMORY=256m
      - DOCKER_IRI_MONITORING_API_PORT_ENABLE=1
      - DOCKER_IRI_REMOTE_LIMIT_API="addNeighbors, removeNeighbors"      
    ports:
      - "14600:14600/udp"
      - "15600:15600/tcp"
    command: ["-c", "/iri/conf/iri.ini"]       
  iota-pm:
    image: michaelermer/iota-peer-manager
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "8888:8888"
    environment:
       - IRI=http://iri:14265
  proxy:
    image: nginx
    volumes:
      - ./data/nginx/ssl/fullchain.pem:/etc/nginx/ssl/fullchain.pem:ro
      - ./data/nginx/ssl/privkey.pem:/etc/nginx/ssl/privkey.pem:ro
      - ./data/nginx/default.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:ro
    command: [nginx-debug, '-g', 'daemon off;']
    ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "443:443"

FOLDER DATABASE & FILE

Before to run, we must create folder, download tangle database and create iri and proxy configuration files.

Create the folder

mkdir ~/data
mkdir ~/data/iri
mkdir ~/data/iri/ixi
mkdir ~/data/iri/db
mkdir ~/data/nginx
mkdir ~/data/nginx/ssl

Download database

IOTA node is a peer to peer node, to increase init time i suggest you to download database and extract it into folder ~/data/db

curl https://global.iota.partners/iri-mainnetdb.tar.gz | tar xz -C ~/data/iri/db/

IRI configuration file

The IRI configuration file should be located into ~/data/iri/iri.ini and it must contains port configuration and neighbors node list.

There are two neighbors connection type:

  • TCP
  • UDP
Your node must be have enough TCP (reciprocal) connection to be able to be synced. 

[IRI]
PORT = 14265
TCP_RECEIVER_PORT = 15600
UDP_RECEIVER_PORT = 14600
IXI_DIR = /iri/ixi/
NEIGHBORS = ....
HEADLESS = true
DEBUG = false
TESTNET = false
DB_PATH = /iri/data/
API_HOST = 0.0.0.0
REMOTE = true
REMOTE_LIMIT_API = "addNeighbors, removeNeighbors"
ZMQ_ENABLED = false

You can find your neighbors into telegram (italian) / discord group

Proxy configuration file

The Nginx proxy configuration file should be located into ~/data/nginx/default.conf

server {
    listen       80;
    location / {
      return 404;
    }
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key  /etc/nginx/ssl/privkey.pem;
    ssl_trusted_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/fullchain.pem;

    # cache ssl sessions 
    ssl_session_cache  builtin:1000  shared:SSL:10m;    

    # prefer server ciphers (safer)
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

    # important! protects your website against MITM attacks.
    add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=604800";

    location / {

       if ($request_method = OPTIONS ) {
          add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
          add_header Access-Control-Allow-Methods "GET, OPTIONS";
          add_header Access-Control-Allow-Headers "origin, authorization, accept";
          add_header Access-Control-Allow-Credentials "true";
          add_header Content-Length 0;
          add_header Content-Type text/plain;
          return 200;
      }

       # these headers contains information about original request
       proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
       proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
       proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
       proxy_set_header Host $http_host;

       proxy_pass http://iri:14265;
    }

    error_page   500 502 503 504  /index.html;
    location = /index.html {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
    }
}

RUN & CHECK

Last thing is to start iri using follow command:

docker-compose up -d

Once start you can open the browser to check your installation ( http://MYIP:8888 )

You can also check your IRI node using Official Node Check

Best regards

Fabrizio Spataro

Commenti

  1. Thank you very much for the useful post. I really appreciate it.

    However, after following, I think, all the steps, I get the node not running in fully (please, check the http://138.100.82.172:8888 ) as I can't add any neighbor neither it does recognize the one into the iri.ini file.

    Of course, the images below are fully missed as it did not get integrated into the network.

    Can you provide some hint about how to cope with the issue ?

    Thanks

    J_Ordieres

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  2. Hello, please contact me using telegram https://t.me/Fabrizio911

    Tnkx

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