Sia - Docker

An unofficial docker image for Sia. Automatically builds Sia using the source code from the official repository: https://github.com/SiaFoundation/siad

Depreciation

Sia now has an official container based on this image: ghcr.io/siafoundation/siad. Updates will continue to happen automatically, but users should switch to the official image.

Breaking change with Sia v1.5.6

With the Sia v1.5.6 update two potentially breaking changes have been made to this container:

• The SIA_MODULES environment variable has been be removed, this was left in largely for compatibility with mtlynch/sia. Instead you should pass -M gct directly at the end of docker run or as command: -M gct in docker-compose.
• siac and siad have been moved to /usr/local/bin for easier usage

Release Tags

• latest - the latest stable Sia release
• versions - builds of exact Sia releases such as: 1.5.4 or 1.5.5
• master - an unstable build of Sia's current master branch.

Get latest official release:

docker pull ghcr.io/siafoundation/siad:latest

Get Sia v1.5.4

docker pull ghcr.io/siafoundation/siad:1.5.4

Get current development version

docker pull ghcr.io/siafoundation/siad:master

Usage

It is important to never publish port 9980 to anything but 127.0.0.1:9980 doing so could give anyone full access to the Sia API and your wallet.

Containers should never share volumes. If multiple sia containers are needed one unique volume should be created per container.

Basic Container

docker volume create sia-data
docker run \
	--detach \
	--restart unless-stopped \
	--mount type=volume,src=sia-data,target=/sia-data \
	--publish 127.0.0.1:9980:9980 \
	--publish 9981:9981 \
	--publish 9982:9982 \
	--publish 9983:9983 \
	--name sia \
	ghcr.io/siafoundation/siad

Command Line Flags

Additional siad command line flags can be passed in by appending them to docker run.

Change API port from 9980 to 8880

docker run \
	--detach
	--restart unless-stopped \
	--publish 127.0.0.1:8880:8880 \
	--publish 9981:9981 \
	--publish 9982:9982 \
	--publish 9983:9983 \
	ghcr.io/siafoundation/siad --api-addr ":8880"

Change SiaMux port from 9983 to 8883

docker run \
	--detach
	--restart unless-stopped \
	--publish 127.0.0.1:9980:9980 \
	--publish 9981:9981 \
	--publish 9982:9982 \
	--publish 8883:8883 \
	ghcr.io/siafoundation/siad --siamux-addr ":8883"

Only run the minimum required modules

docker run \
   --detach
   --restart unless-stopped \
   --publish 127.0.0.1:9980:9980 \
   --publish 9981:9981 \
   --publish 9982:9982 \
   ghcr.io/siafoundation/siad -M gct

Docker Compose

services:
  sia:
    container_name: sia
    image: ghcr.io/siafoundation/siad:latest
    ports:
      - 127.0.0.1:9980:9980
      - 9981:9981
      - 9982:9982
      - 9983:9983
      - 9984:9984
    volumes:
      - sia-data:/sia-data
    restart: unless-stopped

volumes:
  sia-data:

Change API port from 9980 to 8880

services:
  sia:
    container_name: sia
    command: --api-addr :8880
    image: ghcr.io/siafoundation/siad:latest
    ports:
      - 127.0.0.1:8880:8880
      - 9981:9981
      - 9982:9982
      - 9983:9983
      - 9984:9984
    volumes:
      - sia-data:/sia-data
    restart: unless-stopped

volumes:
  sia-data:

Change SiaMux port from 9983 to 8883

services:
  sia:
    container_name: sia
    command: --siamux-addr :8883
    image: ghcr.io/siafoundation/siad:latest
    ports:
      - 127.0.0.1:9980:9980
      - 9981:9981
      - 9982:9982
      - 8883:8883
      - 9984:9984
    volumes:
      - sia-data:/sia-data
    restart: unless-stopped

volumes:
  sia-data:

Only run the minimum required modules

services:
  sia:
    container_name: sia
    command: -M gct
    image: ghcr.io/siafoundation/siad:latest
    ports:
      - 127.0.0.1:9980:9980
      - 9981:9981
      - 9982:9982
      - 9983:9983
      - 9984:9984
    volumes:
      - sia-data:/sia-data
    restart: unless-stopped

volumes:
  sia-data:

Interacting with Sia

You can interact with Sia by using the bundled siac through docker exec or downloading siac separately.

Print help text

docker exec -it sia /siac --help

Get current sync status

docker exec -it sia /siac consensus

Get wallet balance

docker exec -it sia /siac wallet

Sia API Password

When you create or update the Sia container a random API password will be generated. You may need to copy the new API password when connecting outside of the container. To force the same API password to be used you can add -e SIA_API_PASSWORD=yourpasswordhere to the docker run command. This will ensure that the API password stays the same between updates and restarts.

Using Specific Modules

You can pass in different combinations of Sia modules to run by modifying the command used to create the container. For example: -M gct tells Sia to only run the gateway, consensus, and transactionpool modules. -M gctwh is the minimum required modules to run a Sia host. -m gctwr is the minimum required modules to run a Sia renter.

Hosts

Hosting may require additional volumes passed into the container to map local drives into the container. These can be added by specifying docker's -v or --mount flag.