This is for everyone that finds the 'Swiss army knife for STEEM' Piston project useful.
I created and deployed Docker images on Docker Hub for Piston and Piston.web Alpha version.

# Now you can run [Piston] and [Piston.web] Alpha inside Docker container.

This solution has several advantages: now you can run Piston and Piston.web alpha on your Mac/ Ubuntu/Fedora/Gentoo/Windows using a simple 'docker run' command. Piston and its dependencies will not pollute your OS as everything sits inside the Docker container.

## [Piston]

### Pulling the image from Docker Hub
```
$ docker pull cryptomental/steem-piston
latest: Pulling from cryptomental/steem-piston
...
Digest: sha256:c1cadfef0fd92ca5edd537464f727cbd47406d59f08bf6431c0f413e850161d4
Status: Downloaded newer image for cryptomental/steem-piston:latest
```

### Running the image
```
$ docker run -it cryptomental/steem-piston
```

You should end up in Docker container shell with Piston support and be able to execute Piston commands:

```
$ piston read @xeroc/piston-cli-quickstart
```

If everything goes well you should see Piston quickstart message:

http://i.imgsafe.org/2f610ec3e9.png

## [Piston.web] Alpha

### Pulling the image from Docker Hub

```
$ docker pull cryptomental/steem-piston-web
latest: Pulling from cryptomental/steem-piston-web
...
Digest: sha256:a65d7cfcbe79826bbf2b20420c74515850c92300488d1a75d0a35347750140b3
Status: Downloaded newer image for cryptomental/steem-piston-web:latest
```

### Running the image

```
$ docker run --net=host -it cryptomental/steem-piston-web
```

You should end up in Docker container shell with Piston.web Alpha support and be able to execute start Piston.web:

```
piston@cryptomental-lin:~$ piston web
Please provide a password for the new wallet
Passphrase: 
You have chosen an empty password! We assume you understand the risks!
```

Now open your web browser and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:5054
You should be able to access [Piston.web] interface!

http://i.imgsafe.org/2f7b4b5d48.png


I hope you enjoy my contribution and I suspect this will spread the work about Piston.web and help to alpha test it. I will be maintaining the [Piston.web] Docker image until it is merged to master branch and becomes an official part of Piston.

Dockerfile GitHub repositories are here: 

https://github.com/cryptomental/docker-steem-piston
https://github.com/cryptomental/docker-steem-piston-web

Let me know if you are curious how I created the images, set up Docker Hub and connected it to GitHub. I will then describe the procedure in my next post!

Cheers!

P.S. This is my day 3 of Steem lean start-up 90 day challenge. I am still reading [Mastering Bitcoin](https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook) book and my head is turning from 4:3 to 16:9.