feat: allow for running the development process in Docker container

build/docker/bin/Dockerfile

@@ -59,3 +59,5 @@ ADD Makefile /build/Makefile
 VOLUME /out
 
 WORKDIR /build
+
+CMD ["sh", "-c", "while true; do sleep 1000; done"]

workshop/blockbook_build_and_run.sh

@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@ go build
 echo "Generating bitcoin regtest config..."
 ./contrib/scripts/build-blockchaincfg.sh bitcoin_regtest
 
-echo "Running blockbook..."
+echo "Running blockbook, visit http://localhost:9130/ in the browser..."
 ./blockbook -sync -blockchaincfg=build/blockchaincfg.json -internal=:9030 -public=:9130 -logtostderr -enablesubnewtx

workshop/docker_run.md

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+```sh
+# Build the building image
+make .bin-image
+
+# Run the image with mounted code volume and network connections
+docker run -v ".:/src" -v "./build:/out"  --network=host  blockbook-build
+
+# Look at running containers
+docker ps
+
+# Get the container ID for the blockbook-build container
+CONTAINER_ID=$(docker ps -q --filter ancestor=blockbook-build)
+
+# Get a shell in the container
+docker exec -it $CONTAINER_ID /bin/bash
+
+# Full copyable command
+docker exec -it $(docker ps -q --filter ancestor=blockbook-build) /bin/bash
+
+---
+
+# INSIDE THE CONTAINER
+
+# Go to the source code directory
+cd /src
+# Build the main binary
+go build
+# Regenerate config
+./contrib/scripts/build-blockchaincfg.sh bitcoin_regtest
+# Run the app ... logs should be visible in the terminal
+./blockbook -sync -blockchaincfg=build/blockchaincfg.json -internal=:9030 -public=:9130 -logtostderr -enablesubnewtx
+# Visit http://localhost:9130/ in the browser
+
+# LOOP: Now you can modify the code locally and always rebuild and run the app in the container
+
+---
+
+# Stop the container
+docker stop $CONTAINER_ID
+```