Docker compose

The docker-compose provides an app container for Bee itself and a signer container for Clef. To prepare your machine to run docker compose execute

mkdir -p bee && cd bee
wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ethersphere/bee/master/packaging/docker/docker-compose.yml
wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ethersphere/bee/master/packaging/docker/env -O .env

Set all configuration variables inside .env

clef is configured with CLEF_CHAINID=5 for goerli

Bee requires an Ethereum endpoint to function. Obtain a free Infura account and set:

• BEE_SWAP_ENDPOINT=wss://goerli.infura.io/ws/v3/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Set bee password by either setting BEE_PASSWORD or BEE_PASSWORD_FILE

If you want to use password file set it to

• BEE_PASSWORD_FILE=/password

Mount password file local file system by adding

- ./password:/password

to bee volumes inside docker-compose.yml

Start it with

docker-compose up -d

From logs find URL line with on goerli you can get both goerli eth and goerli bzz from and prefund your node

docker-compose logs -f bee-1

Update services with

docker-compose pull && docker-compose up -d

Running multiple Bee nodes

It is easy to run multiple bee nodes with docker compose by adding more services to docker-compose.yaml To do so, open docker-compose.yaml, copy lines 3-58 and past this after line 58. In the copied lines, replace all occurences of bee-1 with bee-2, clef-1 with clef-2 and adjust the API_ADDR and P2P_ADDR and DEBUG_API_ADDR to respectively 1733, 1734 and 127.0.0.1:1735 Lastly, add your newly configured services under volumes (last lines), such that it looks like:

volumes:
  clef-1:
  bee-1:
  bee-2:
  clef-2:

If you want to create more than two nodes, simply repeat the process above, ensuring that you keep unique name for your bee and clef services and update the ports