Run all of the LBRY network locally inside docker containers. The LBRY
blockchain is configured to use regtest. This is intended as a tool
for developers to provide an isolated environment for testing. Using
regtest has the advantage that coins are free and any bugs in
publishing or metadata won't propogate out to rest of the
network. Additionally, extra blocks can be mined on demand so there is
no need to wait for claims or transactions to propogate.
This is configured using docker-compose, so the containers can be launched using.
docker compose up
To initialize the blockchain run:
./lbrycrd-cli -rpcconnect=127.0.0.1 -rpcport=19001 -rpcuser=rpcuser \
-rpcpassword=jhopfpusrx -regtest=1 generate 150
The lbrynet daemon can now connect to your local lbryum server. It needs to be properly configured, which requires some code changes to allow for that to happen (lbryum has been difficult to work with). This section should be updated after those code changes happen.
Docker is very flexible in its ability to mount files and directories. For each service, the behavior can be changed by mounting a configuration file, or over-writing a data directory. At some point, we'll probably have standard blockchain data and blob data that can be pre-populated into the containers.
Check the Dockerfile and README files for each container for more information.