Download

We offer ipfs-cluster-service, ipfs-cluster-ctl and ipfs-cluster-follow through several options. For information on how to setup and run IPFS Cluster:

Binary distribution

IPFS Cluster provides pre-built binaries for several platforms on the IPFS Distributions page:

You can download these binaries, make them executable and run them directly. They include all the necessary dependencies.

The prebuilt-binaries are only updated on new releases (with occasional release candidates). These releases aim to provide a stable distribution of IPFS Cluster.

Docker

We have automatic docker builds (https://hub.docker.com/r/ipfs/ipfs-cluster/) to create a minimal container that runs ipfs-cluster-service by default. You can get it with:

docker pull ipfs/ipfs-cluster:\<tag\>

where <tag> is either latest or a tagged version of cluster (i.e. v0.11.0). The latest build is built from master.

See the Docker documentation section for more details.

Installing from source

The following requirements apply to the installation from source:

  • Go 1.12+
  • Git

In order to build and install IPFS Cluster follow these steps:

git clone https://github.com/ipfs-cluster/ipfs-cluster.git
cd ipfs-cluster
make install

After the dependencies have been downloaded, ipfs-cluster-service, ipfs-cluster-ctl and ipfs-cluster-follow will be installed to your $GOPATH/bin.

If you would rather have them built locally, use make build.

Building the docker image

Run…

docker build . -t ipfs-cluster

…in the repository root.