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Docker v20.10+
Docker-compose 2.x.x+
Running Ethereum JSON RPC client
Note: if you don't need to make backend customizations, you can run docker-compose up in order to launch from pre-build backend Docker image. This will be much faster.
This command uses docker-compose.yml by-default, which builds the backend of the explorer into the Docker image and runs 9 Docker containers:
Postgres 14.x database, which will be available at port 7432 on the host machine.
Redis database of the latest version.
Blockscout backend with api at /api path.
Nginx proxy to bind backend, frontend and microservices.
Blockscout explorer at http://localhost.
and 4 containers for microservices (written in Rust):
The repo contains built-in configs for different JSON RPC clients without the need to build the image.
JSON RPC Client
Docker compose launch command
Erigon
docker-compose -f erigon.yml up -d
Geth (suitable for Reth as well)
docker-compose -f geth.yml up -d
Geth Clique
docker-compose -f geth-clique-consensus.yml up -d
Nethermind, OpenEthereum
docker-compose -f nethermind up -d
Anvil
docker-compose -f anvil.yml up -d
HardHat network
docker-compose -f hardhat-network.yml up -d
Run only the explorer without DB: docker-compose -f external-db.yml up -d. In this case, no db container is created. And it assumes that the DB credentials are provided through DATABASE_URL environment variable on the backend container.
Running explorer with external backend: docker-compose -f external-backend.yml up -d
Running explorer with external frontend: docker-compose -f external-frontend.yml up -d
Running all microservices: docker-compose -f microservices.yml up -d
All of the configs assume the Ethereum JSON RPC is running at http://localhost:8545.
In order to stop launched containers, run docker-compose -d -f config_file.yml down, replacing config_file.yml with the file name of the config which was previously launched.
You can adjust BlockScout environment variables:
for backend in ./envs/common-blockscout.env
for frontend in ./envs/common-frontend.env
for stats service in ./envs/common-stats.env
for visualizer in ./envs/common-visualizer.env
Descriptions of the ENVs are available
Prerequisites are the same, as for docker-compose setup.
Start all containers:
Stop all containers:
Note: Makefile uses the same .env files since it is running docker-compose services inside.
service with a separate Postgres 14 DB.
service.
service.
Note for Linux users: Linux users who run Blockscout in docker with a local node need to run the node on rather than
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