Cardano Wallet/Node - Docker

This project will build a 1.3.x Cardano Node and Wallet running within a docker container on Ubuntu.

Requirements

• Ubuntu - OSX did not work for me ;(
• Git
• Docker

Options

You can build the image or use a prebuilt image. Both options are presented below, but you will need to create the data dir.

Create Data Dir

$ mkdir cardano && cd cardano
$ mkdir data && chmod 777 data

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Building Image

$ git clone https://github.com/alphapoint/cardano-node

$ cd cardano-node

# Build the image locally
$ docker build -t cardano-node .

Updating an Image

# Login to ap docker
$ docker login devopsdockerreg.azurecr.io

# Tag the local build with a remote tag
$ docker tag cardano-node devopsdockerreg.azurecr.io/cardano-node

# Push the new tag to the remote
$ docker push devopsdockerreg.azurecr.io/cardano-node

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Using Existing Image

# Pull the remote built image
$ docker pull devopsdockerreg.azurecr.io/cardano-node

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Run Built/Pulled Image

# Get image id below
$ docker images

# Create and run the container
$ docker run -d --name=cardano-node -v ~/cardano/data:/home/cardano/cardano-sl/state-wallet-mainnet:Z -p 127.0.0.1:8090:443 <image id>

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Verify

# Curl Wallet API 
$ curl -k 
https://127.0.0.1:8090/api/v1/node-info

# Verify wallet /data dir
$ ls ../data

# Peek at Node logs
$ docker logs -f cardano-node

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Maintenance

# Start/Stop Container
$ docker stop cardano-node
$ docker start cardano-node

# Remove Container
$ docker ps
$ docker container rm -f <container id>

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Creating a Wallet

Once you have verified the node is running, we need to create a wallet on it. Run the following command to create your wallet on your node and edit the parameters as you wish.

curl -k -X POST https://127.0.0.1:8090/api/v1/wallets \
  -d '{ "operation": "create", "backupPhrase": [<12 word mnemonic>], "assuranceLevel": "normal", "name": "Test Wallet" }' \
  -H "Accept: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8"

Now that you have created a wallet, let's list the wallets for our node. Find and write down the id param for the wallet from this response.

curl -k https://127.0.0.1:8090/api/v1/wallets

Now we need to get the accountIndex for the wallet id. Execute the following curl with the substitution of the id param. You will find an array of accounts from the response below. Write down the accountIndex param.

curl -k https://localhost:8090/api/v1/wallets/<wallet id>/accounts

We have created a wallet and noted the wallet id and the default wallet accountIndex. We will need these in order to interact with our wallet to do things like generate an address and send a transaction.

Note that you may want to transfer some ADA to this account. You will see an array of addresses from the previous command output. You may use the id from the first address item in the array to send ADA to from an external wallet.