container-xmr-mining

A Docker container setup to mine XMR based on XMRig.

Table of contents

• container-xmr-mining
  • Table of contents
  • Setup
    • Docker
    • Docker Compose

Setup

Docker

0. Requirements

   • Docker

1. Build the Docker container

   docker build -t xmr-mining-container ./src/ 

2. Create the configuration file

   Create based on the ./config/config_demo.json a file called ./config/config.json containing your custom settings.

3. Start the Docker container

   docker run -d --restart unless-stopped --name miner -v $(pwd)/config:/miner-config xmr-mining-container

Docker Compose

0. Requirements

   • Docker
   • Docker Compose

1. Create the configuration file

   Create based on the ./config/config_demo.json a file called ./config/config.json containing your custom settings.

2. Limit the cpu usage

   To limit the cpu usage remove the # at the beginning of the following lines in the docker-compose.yml file:

       #deploy:
       #  resources:
       #    limits:
       #      cpus: "3.0"   # max cpu usage (1.0 equals 1 cpu core) 

3. Build the container local

   If you ar not using a linux x86 containerhost or want to build the container on startup the remove the # at the beginning of the following lines in the docker-compose.yml file:

       #build:
       #  context: ./src
       #  dockerfile: ./Dockerfile

   And add add a # at the beginning of the following line:

       image: ghcr.io/jonas-merkle/container-xmr-mining:master

4. Start container

   The default start command is:

   docker-compose up -d

   If you changed something in section 4. of this tutorial the use this command to start the container:

   docker-compose up -d --build

5. Stop container

   docker-compose down