IPFS on Docker

Deploy IPFS with Docker using make. You can customize multiple things.

Requirements

You only need:

Docker
Make

If you have Ubuntu, to install make simply use:

$ sudo apt-get install make

Build params

You can customize multiple params. See next table.

Param	Description	Default value
`NAME`	Name of the docker image	`ipfs-host`
`STAGING_DIR`	The maximum amount of memory the container can use	`$HOME/ipfs/staging`
`DATA_DIR`	The amount of memory this container is allowed to swap to disk	`$HOME/ipfs/data`
`COMMAND`	Specify how much of the available CPU resources a container can use	`version`
`RES`	Specify how much of the available CPU resources a container can use

Targets

You can execute these targets:

Param	Description
`build`	Pull the image and create the directory to store ipfs data
`start`	Start the IPFS daemon
`logs`	Show the IPFS logs
`command`	Execute an IPFS command. For example, `version`
`add`	Add a file or directory to IPFS
`stop`	Stop and clean the IPFS docker container

Example

If you want to add a directory from the current directory like:

.
├── test
│   └── b.txt

Then

$  make RES=test add
docker exec ipfs-host ipfs add -r /export/test
added QmeQkPj49FbmJ5BPjzg5GWS3VKmLP88f15n5zkzsSf4fKM test/b.txt
added QmPRhop3GJ4FyEzBNWM9JKVG4Hm1v4HKdyvfEUHdytHb7P test