Run EN using docker

Download the image

Choose an image tag from https://hub.docker.com/r/kaiachain/kaia/tags. kaiachain/kaia:latest is the recent release version. But you can choose a specific version. Currently, only linux/amd64 platform is supported. The container might not work correctly in Windows or Mac hosts.

docker pull kaiachain/kaia:latest # Latest release

docker pull kaiachain/kaia:v1.0.2 # Specific version

Prepare configuration file

You can start from the existing configuration file. To obtain the template kend.conf configuration file,

mkdir -p conf

docker run --rm kaiachain/kaia:latest cat /klaytn-docker-pkg/conf/kend.conf > conf/kend.conf

Then edit the configuration. At least the DATA_DIR and LOG_DIR has to be specified. This guide will assume /var/kend/data.

echo "DATA_DIR=/var/kend/data" >> conf/kend.conf

echo "LOG_DIR=/var/kend/logs" >> conf/kend.conf

(Optional) Download Chaindata Snapshot

Syncing from the genesis block is time-consuming. You may use Chaindata Snapshot to skip the Full Sync process. Download and decompress the chaindata snapshot. Then mount the decompressed directory to the container.

Start the container

Expose the RPC port, which is 8551 unless you have modified in the kend.conf. Mount the configuration directory conf/ and chaindata directory data/. Then run kend start to start the daemon and tail -f to print the logs.

mkdir -p data

docker run -d --name ken \

-p 8551:8551 \

-v $(pwd)/conf:/klaytn-docker-pkg/conf \

-v $(pwd)/data:/var/kend/data \

kaiachain/kaia:latest \

/bin/bash -c "kend start && touch /var/kend/logs/kend.out && tail -f /var/kend/logs/kend.out"

Attaching to the console

docker exec -it ken ken attach --datadir /var/kend/data

Stopping the container

To prevent chaindata corruption, gracefully shut down the ken.

docker exec -it ken kend stop

docker stop ken

docker rm ken