This is a collection of files and configuration for playing with IPFS in Docker. Most of the experimentation will be focused on private networks and clustering.
Good explanation for the role of private networks vs clustering
They are separate features/functionality. * With private networks each node specifies which other nodes it will connect to. Nodes in that network don't respond to communications from nodes outside that network. * With ipfs-cluster you use a leader-based consensus algorithm to coordinate storage of a pinset -- distributing the set of data across the participating nodes based on whichever pattern you prefer You could use these features together -- using ipfs-cluster to spread a pinset across a private network of nodes -- but they are completely separate features. They do not rely on each other. Support for private networks is functionality implemented within the core (go-ipfs) code base. ipfs-cluster is its own separate code base.
-- flyingzumwalt
https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/how-to-create-a-private-network-of-ipfs/339/7
- https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-cluster/blob/master/docs/ipfs-cluster-guide.md
- https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/solved-need-help-to-setup-a-new-ipfs-cluster-with-2-peers/835
If you don't have the ipfs-swarm-key-gen binary locally, you can use Docker to
to fetch the dependency and generate a swarm key by running the following:
$ docker run --rm golang:1.9 sh -c 'go get github.com/Kubuxu/go-ipfs-swarm-key-gen/ipfs-swarm-key-gen && ipfs-swarm-key-gen'
/key/swarm/psk/1.0.0/
/base16/
f744ccf21ef090407977a33e01deb0a0c6a3397ae0366ff6f3c749e200f2510ddocker run --rm -e LIBP2P_FORCE_PNET=1 -e SWARM_KEY="/key/swarm/psk/1.0.0/\n/base16/\ne0e7b1394fb6e928eecf2f8db77eaa99d3657684dc939519f285cb902bd93e22" -v ./private-network/init.sh:/usr/local/bin/start_ipfs ipfs/go-ipfs:latest