oam/docker compositions/boinc-client

Boinc client on Docker

See my custom image at container-image-boinc-client.

Table of contents

1. Parameters
2. Docker Compose
3. Attach to an account manager
4. TODO
5. Sources

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Function
BOINC_CMD_LINE_OPTIONS	Environment Variable	"--allow_remote_gui_rpc"	The --allow_remote_gui_rpc command-line option allows connecting to the client with any IP address. If you don't want that, you can remove this parameter, but you have to use the BOINC_REMOTE_HOST="IP" environment variable
BOINC_GUI_RPC_PASSWORD	Environment Variable	"123"	The password you will need to use when you connect to the BOINC client
BOINC_REMOTE_HOST	Environment Variable	"127.0.0.1"	(Optional) Replace the IP with your IP address. In this case you can connect to the client only from this IP
TZ	Environment Variable	"Europe/London"	(Optional) Specify a time zone. The default is UTC +0
/opt/appdata/boinc:/var/lib/boinc	Path or Volume		The path where you wish BOINC to store its configuration data
--pid=host	Docker Run Option		(Optional) Share the host's process namespace, basically allowing processes within the container to see all of the processes on the system. Allows boinc to determine nonboinc processes for CPU percentages and exclusive applications.

Docker Compose

You can create the following docker-compose.yml file and from within the same directory run the client with docker-compose up -d to avoid the longer command from above.

version: '2'
services:

  boinc:
    image: boinc/client
    container_name: boinc
    restart: always
    network_mode: host
    pid: host
    volumes:
      - /opt/appdata/boinc:/var/lib/boinc
    environment:
      - BOINC_GUI_RPC_PASSWORD=123
      - BOINC_CMD_LINE_OPTIONS=--allow_remote_gui_rpc

Attach to an account manager

boinccmd --acct_mgr attach https://bam.boincstats.com $USER $PASSWORD

TODO

• automatic account manager attach after boot

Sources

• Github
• Docker Hub