ethereum Running in Docker

https://ethereum.gitbooks.io/frontier-guide/content/using_docker.html

Running in Docker

We keep a Docker image with recent snapshot builds from the develop branch on DockerHub. Run this first:+

docker pull ethereum/client-go
Start a node with:
docker run -it -p 30303:30303 ethereum/client-go
To start a node that runs the JSON-RPC interface on port 8545, run:
docker run -it -p 8545:8545 -p 30303:30303 ethereum/client-go --rpc
WARNING: This opens your container to external calls
To use the interactive JavaScript console, run:
docker run -it -p 30303:30303 ethereum/client-go console