Cardano node build

Build your own cardano node image

# Build
git clone https://github.com/koolwithk/cardano-node-build.git

cd cardano-node-build

docker build --build-arg git_commit_id='tags/1.35.5' -t cardano-node:<tag> -f Dockerfile .
#update git_commit_id and tag as per your requirement.

# Run
docker run -e NETWORK=preview -it cardano-node:<tag>

# Use already build image
docker run -e NETWORK=preview -it koolwithk/cardano-node:1.35.5

Run using docker compose

NETWORK=preview docker-compose -f cardano-compose.yml up -d

Cardano node docker image build on Raspberry pi 4

Prerequisite

• Raspberry pi 4 with 8GB RAM + 8GB SWAP
• 40GB free space (32 GB card won't work)
• Build time around 11 hours

1. Create 8GB of temporary SWAP memory as cardano-node require more than 8GB Memory. It kind of makes total 16GB of RAM but extra 8 GB RAM are very slow.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=4096 count=2048k
mkswap /swapfile
chmod 600 /swapfile
swapon /swapfile
sysctl vm.swappiness=60

# Make swap permanent
echo "/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0" >>  /etc/fstab

Build arm64 cardano-node docker image

# Build
git clone https://github.com/koolwithk/cardano-node-build.git

cd cardano-node-build

docker build -t cardano-node:<tag> -f arm64.Dockerfile .

docker build --build-arg git_commit_id='tags/1.35.5' -t cardano-node:<tag> -f arm64.Dockerfile .
#update git_commit_id and tag as per your requirement.

# Run
docker run -e NETWORK=preview -it cardano-node:<tag>

# Use already build image
docker run -e NETWORK=preview -it koolwithk/cardano-node:1.35.5-arm64

Note : It took around 11 Hours to build the cardano-node image on Raspberry pi4.

If we do not add 8GB swap it will fail at test:tx-generator-test with not enough memory available error

test:tx-generator-test from tx-generator-2.2, exe:tx-generator from
tx-generator-2.2 and others). The build process was killed (i.e. SIGKILL). The
typical reason for this is that there is not enough memory available (e.g. the
OS killed a process using lots of memory).

raspberry pi4 cardano node sync status

Network	Status	Reason
mainnet	Stuck	Stuck at epoc 317. Tried with 16GB swap.
preprod	Test Pending
preview	Test Pending

Refrences:

• https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node/blob/master/doc/getting-started/install.md/
• https://developers.cardano.org/docs/get-started/installing-cardano-node/
• https://www.coincashew.com/coins/overview-ada/guide-how-to-build-a-haskell-stakepool-node

Alternatives:

• https://github.com/jterrier84/Cardano-node-docker
• https://github.com/armada-alliance/cardano-node-binaries/tree/main/static-binaries