This repository contains a Dockerfile that builds an image running the leonArdo trading bot: http://marginsoftware.de/product.html.
It runs the bot inside a xpra session, together with a SSH server. You can connect using xpra or winswitch.
This image is useful when you want to run the bot on a remote machine like a VPS or if the application doesn't work correctly on your system (e.g. due to conflicting QT libraries).
The password for the leonardo user that is created by the Dockerfile and that can be used to access via SSH is leonardo. Obviously this has to be changed if you plan to bind the container SSH port to anything else than localhost!
I recommend using SSH forwarding instead, e.g. open a tunnel with ssh -L 2222:localhost:2222 user@remote-host-where-the-container-runs and then connect to localhost (see usage below).
I had a problem on a VPS where Leonardo wouldn't start, so the Dockerfile contains a workaround that worked for me, it simply inserts a sync in the run-leonArdo.sh script.
The config directory /home/leonardo/.leonardo inside the container is a VOLUME, so it will bypass the ephemeral Docker filesystem. If you plan on using this image you should either run it with docker-compose.yml so the volume is always used by new containers and/or mount the config directory from the Docker host's filesystem.
The Dockerfile could be improved (for example by using guacamole) but it works for me and maybe it will be useful for others as well.
To run the bot locally:
sudo docker run -d --name leonardo -p 127.0.0.1:2222:22 jeverling/leonardo-trading-bot
Then attach to the xpra server:
xpra attach ssh:leonardo@localhost:2222:123
This should show the login screen of leonArdo.
If you want to run the bot with an existing config, you can mount the config folder into the Docker container. Please note that you will have to make sure that the unprivileged leonardo user that is used inside the container is able to write to the files/folders. The easiest way to achieve that is to make the ~/.leonardo directory accessible to others, e.g. chmod -vR 757 ~/.leonardo.
To run the container with the existing config directory as a mount:
sudo docker run -d --name leonardo -p 127.0.0.1:2222:22 -v /full/path/to/existing/.leonardo:/home/leonardo/.leonardo jeverling/leonardo-trading-bot
If you plan on running the bot using this Docker image you should check out the docker-compose.yml file to run the container with docker-compose.