ext9blockchain/ext9 repository overview

⁠Official N-CHAIN Docker Container

⁠Basic Startup

docker run --name ext9 -d ext9blockchain/ext9
(optional -v /path/to/plots:/plots)

⁠set the timezone for the container (optional, defaults to UTC)

Timezones can be configured using the TZ env variable. A list of supported time zones can be found here⁠

-e TZ="America/Chicago"

⁠Configuration

You can modify the behavior of your Chia container by setting specific environment variables.

To use your own keys pass as arguments on startup (post 1.0.2 pre 1.0.2 must manually pass as shown below)

-v /path/to/key/file:/path/in/container -e keys="/path/in/container"

or pass keys into the running container

docker exec -it <container-name> venv/bin/chia keys add

alternatively you can pass in your local keychain, if you have previously deployed chia with these keys on the host machine

-v ~/.local/share/python_keyring/:/root/.local/share/python_keyring/

or if you would like to persist the entire mainnet subdirectory and not touch the key directories at all

-v ~/.chia/mainnet:/root/.chia/mainnet -e keys="persistent"

To start a farmer only node pass

-e farmer="true"

To start a harvester only node pass

-e harvester="true" -e farmer_address="addres.of.farmer" -e farmer_port="38447" -v /path/to/ssl/ca:/path/in/container -e ca="/path/in/container" -e keys="copy"

The plots_dir environment variable can be used to specify the directory containing the plots, it supports PATH-style colon-separated directories.

The plots_yaml environment variable can be used to specify the plots path config file. By default, it reads all paths from path key. The default key can be changed by plots_yaml_key environment variable.

harvester:
  plot_directories:
    - /mnt/18t01/chia
    - /mnt/18t02/chia

-e plots_yaml=/config/config.yaml -e plots_yaml_key=harvester.plot_directories

⁠or run commands externally with venv (this works for most chia XYZ commands)

docker exec -it chia venv/bin/chia plots add -d /plots

⁠status from outside the container

docker exec -it chia venv/bin/chia show -s -c

⁠Connect to testnet?

docker run -d --expose=58444 --expose=8555 -e testnet=true --name <container-name> ext9blockchain/ext9

⁠Need a wallet?

docker exec -it chia-farmer1 venv/bin/chia wallet show (follow the prompts)