cjtkirk1/bitcoin-linode repository overview

⁠Runtime Environment Requirements

1. You are running a linux distro (Ubuntu, Fedora, etc)
2. Docker is installed with docker daemon running
   • This command will install on Ubuntu: sudo apt install docker.io
3. A linode account has been created (https://login.linode.com/signup⁠)
4. You have a ssh public key as ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
   • If you have no existing public key, you can create one with ssh-keygen and press enter for all questions.

⁠Create environment variables (put into ~/.bashrc)

On the linode Cloud Manager, select "Profile and Account" in the top right corner. Select "API Tokens" then "Create a Personal Access Token" one with the default privileges (only linode instance and volume creation are needed). Copy the API token and place it in the environment variable LINODE_API_TOKEN as below:

export LINODE_CLI_TOKEN="2a2f4563d1......33ca8a32e23"   # Create with linode Cloud Manager 
export LINODE_ROOT_PASSWORD="mypassword" 

These are the command to launch the bci command line tool directly from the image in docker hub.

$ alias bci="docker container run --rm --name=bci --workdir /opt/devops-bci/bci-app --user : -it -e LINODE_CLI_TOKEN -e LINODE_ROOT_PASSWORD -v /home/$(whoami)/.ssh:/root/.ssh cjtkirk1/bitcoin-linode:latest"
$ bci

⁠Running the bci tool

bci --help

⁠Notes

• This bci software tool does not perform any financial transacations. It also does not store or manage any keys. It simply creates a computer in the linode cloud, attaches a volume and installs the bitcoin full node software on it.
• Docker is used to avoid needing to install python, dependent modules and any other dependencies in the future.