There are two ways to obtain a Reth Docker image:
Once you have obtained the Docker image, proceed to Using the Docker image.
Note
Reth requires Docker Engine version 20.10.10 or higher due to missing support for the
clone3
syscall in previous versions.
Reth docker images for both x86_64 and ARM64 machines are published with every release of reth on GitHub Container Registry.
You can obtain the latest image with:
docker pull ghcr.io/paradigmxyz/reth
Or a specific version (e.g. v0.0.1) with:
docker pull ghcr.io/paradigmxyz/reth:v0.0.1
You can test the image with:
docker run --rm ghcr.io/paradigmxyz/reth --version
If you can see the latest Reth release version, then you've successfully installed Reth via Docker.
To build the image from source, navigate to the root of the repository and run:
docker build . -t reth:local
The build will likely take several minutes. Once it's built, test it with:
docker run reth:local --version
There are two ways to use the Docker image:
To run Reth with Docker, run:
docker run \
-v rethdata:/root/.local/share/reth/mainnet \
-d \
-p 9001:9001 \
-p 30303:30303 \
-p 30303:30303/udp \
--name reth \
reth:local \
node \
--metrics 0.0.0.0:9001
The above command will create a container named reth
and a named volume called rethdata
for data persistence.
It will also expose the 30303
port (TCP and UDP) for peering with other nodes and the 9001
port for metrics.
It will use the local image reth:local
. If you want to use the GitHub Container Registry remote image, use ghcr.io/paradigmxyz/reth
with your preferred tag.
To run Reth with Docker Compose, run the following command from a shell inside the root directory of this repository:
./etc/generate-jwt.sh
docker compose -f etc/docker-compose.yml -f etc/lighthouse.yml up -d
Note
If you want to run Reth with a CL that is not Lighthouse:
- The JWT for the consensus client can be found at
etc/jwttoken/jwt.hex
in this repository, after theetc/generate-jwt.sh
script is run- The Reth Engine API is accessible on
localhost:8551
To check if Reth is running correctly, run:
docker compose -f etc/docker-compose.yml -f etc/lighthouse.yml logs -f reth
The default docker-compose.yml
file will create three containers:
- Reth
- Prometheus
- Grafana
The optional lighthouse.yml
file will create two containers:
- Lighthouse
ethereum-metrics-exporter
Grafana will be exposed on localhost:3000
and accessible via default credentials (username and password is admin
), with two available dashboards:
- reth
- Ethereum Metrics Exporter (works only if Lighthouse is also running)
To interact with Reth you must first open a shell inside the Reth container by running:
docker exec -it reth bash
If Reth is running with Docker Compose, replace reth
with reth-reth-1
in the above command
Refer to the CLI docs to interact with Reth once inside the Reth container.
This allows importing existing Grafana dashboards, without running Reth in Docker.
docker compose -f etc/docker-compose.yml up -d --no-deps grafana
After login with admin:admin
credentials, Prometheus should be listed under Grafana datasources
. Replace its Prometheus server URL
so it points to locally running one. On Mac or Windows, use http://host.docker.internal:9090
. On Linux, try http://172.17.0.1:9090
.