This Dockerfile is based on the Dockerfile officially provided within the lnd repo.

The changes from upstream include:

• exact versions of base images specified,
• make replaced with naked go build,
• apk add removed from the final stage of the build to make cross-compilation possible,
• maintainer label added.

• latest, 0.5.2 - currently latest version of lnd for both arm and amd64
• 0.5.2-linux-arm - LND version 0.5.2 for arm architecture, built on Travis (log)
• 0.5.2-linux-amd64 - LND version 0.5.2 for amd64 architecture, built on Travis (log)

First pull the image from Docker Hub:

docker pull lncm/lnd:0.5.2

NOTE: Running above will automatically choose native architecture of your CPU.

Then to start lnd, execute:

docker run -it --rm \
    -v ~/.lnd:/root/.lnd \
    -p 9735:9735 \
    -p 10009:10009 \
    --name lnd \
    --detach \
    lncm/lnd:0.5.2

That will run lnd such that:

• all data generated by the container is stored in ~/.lnd on your host machine,
• port 9735 will be reachable for the peer-to-peer communication,
• port 10009 will be reachable for the RPC communication,
• created container will get named lnd,
• that command will run the container in the background and print the ID of the container being run.

To issue any commands to a running container, do:

docker exec -it lnd BINARY COMMAND

Where:

• BINARY is either lnd or lncli, and
• COMMAND is something you'd normally pass to the binary

Examples:

docker exec -it lnd lnd --help
docker exec -it lnd lnd --version
docker exec -it lnd lncli --help
docker exec -it lnd lncli getinfo
docker exec -it lnd lncli getnetworkinfo