The docker-compose provides an app container for Bee. To prepare your machine to run docker compose execute

mkdir -p bee && cd bee
wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ethersphere/bee/master/packaging/docker/docker-compose.yml
wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ethersphere/bee/master/packaging/docker/env -O .env

Set all configuration variables inside .env

If you want to run node in full mode, set BEE_FULL_NODE=true

Bee requires an Ethereum endpoint to function. Obtain a free Infura account and set:

• BEE_BLOCKCHAIN_RPC_ENDPOINT=wss://sepolia.infura.io/ws/v3/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Set bee password by either setting BEE_PASSWORD or BEE_PASSWORD_FILE

If you want to use password file set it to

• BEE_PASSWORD_FILE=/password

Mount password file local file system by adding

- ./password:/password

to bee volumes inside docker-compose.yml

Start it with

docker-compose up -d

From logs find URL line with on sepolia you can get both sepolia eth and sepolia bzz from and prefund your node

docker-compose logs -f bee-1

Update services with

docker-compose pull && docker-compose up -d

It is easy to run multiple bee nodes with docker compose by adding more services to docker-compose.yaml To do so, open docker-compose.yaml, copy lines 4-54 and past this after line 54 (whole bee-1 section). In the copied lines, replace all occurrences of bee-1 with bee-2 and adjust the API_ADDR and P2P_ADDR to respectively 1733, 1734. Lastly, add your newly configured services under volumes (last lines), such that it looks like:

volumes:
  bee-1:
  bee-2:

If you want to create more than two nodes, simply repeat the process above, ensuring that you keep unique name for your bee services and update the ports