Anybody running Bisq in docker container?

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First some praise: I’m quite new to Bisq, but I’m loving it so far. Kudos to the developers! Impressive work.

I have a NAS with various services running in docker. Does anybody have experience with running Bisq that way? It would be perfect: always-on without any additional electricity consumption. The Android app seems a little weird, but it does send empty notifications every time something happens. So I could then log into the docker container and do whatever needs to be done - even from anywhere in the world, since I can VPN into my local network and access Bisq that way.

I found this project: Docker Hub
Has anybody tried it out? Is it stable? Or is there another one I haven’t found yet?

Or are there any issues I have not fully thought through yet? Maybe related to Bisq being a hot wallet?

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Anyone? I can’t imagine nobody here has had that thought before me. :grin:

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Going out on a limb here… your NAS is bound to not run on a x64 cpu, is it?
In case the underlying system is not what Bisq needs, I personally doubt it will run even over docker

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Yes yes, it’s an x64 cpu, relatively powerful even. And there seems be a maintained docker image (the link I sent before: fflo/bisq-on-docker), already updated for Bisq 1.8.2.

This seems promising to me. But since I’m new to Bisq, I don’t want to use an unstable platform - I might end up not knowing if the problem lies with Bisq itself or the docker image. So I was hoping somebody has experience with this.

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I haven’t looked into docker setups until now, probably because all my always-on units are not x64 and it would be useless anyway :slight_smile:
Going by the activity of this thread also other users never explored this possibility yet, would there be a way to ask for feedback directly to the docker repo maintainer?

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I was also surprised by the (lack of) activity in this thread. Running Bisq on docker on a NAS or server was my very first immediate thought. Unless I’m missing something.

I’ll try to find some more info.

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Docker here is trying to fill a need that Bisq1 will not, as most development is now being done for Bisq2.
With that, you won’t need docker as it should support more platforms, and allow for a server-client architecture where a machine runs the backend, and another will have a web-like interface to interact with it.

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Ah alright! Just had a look at the Bisq2 repo. Looks super interesting. Could not find an ETA though. When might it be production ready?

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closest thing to an eta I stumbled upon, don’t even remember by whom, was “in a few months”, but obviously, like anything, ready when it’s ready :slight_smile:

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Just an FYI, for anyone who’s interested. I tried out the above-mentioned bisq-on-docker. It works fine. However, since there’s virtually zero communication around the project (both developer and community) and I’m not proficient enough to fully understand the dockerfile, I decided to run it in a VM instead.

It’s a shame. The project looks nice, works well, and seems to be regularly updated for new Bisq versions. But I’m not going to put my assets in a hotwallet into a system I don’t fully understand or that at least people I trust (like the Bisq developers) have looked into.

I’m happy to look into it again if things change.

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This was indeed a smart choice.
Probably a well-meaning user who dockerized Bisq for their own use, and then shared it, but still you should be able to verify…

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Thanks. It’s a shame though. The docker version is close to zero effort (takes about as long as downloading it if you’ve put together a docker container before) and setting up a VM a lot more, plus less efficient, etc.

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True, true… usually safety and privacy do not come together with convenience though :slight_smile:

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I’ve been battling it out.
Not there yet.
Have jumped through many hoops and gone down many rabbit holes.

Old pc into NAS, Truenas OS, running plex, then also a VM running Linux server MATE to then be able to have a docker, where I used portainer etc. to set up the Bisq docker.

I can Remote Desktop in; server has a GUI, and get into the VM from my main PC - easy. But finding the docker / Bisq on there, no idea… and downloading Bisq directly, also not installing etc. .deb , dunno .

But YES, all I want is Bisq on sever/ up 24/7 and so that I can easily access via main PC when I want.
:smiling_face_with_tear:

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Once you have a VM running on your 24/7 system, you can install Bisq on there after downloading from the bisq.network and then use something like VNC to use it, docker is not needed

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Yeah I’ve managed to go that way instead.
Truenas → VM → Linux ubuntu server → MATE GUI → using Remotedesktop from main PC to view in… but lord help me, I can download bisq for linux - got the 64bit deb of 1.8.4. but won’t install, or give me the app to run. Fairly noobish to linux ubuntu - but can do it straight forward on my other VM running from local pc (not server). So don’t think I’m that far off.