This configuration requires Docker Compose, a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. The recommended way to get Docker Compose is to install Docker Desktop, which includes Docker Compose along with Docker Engine and Docker CLI which are Compose prerequisites.

See Docker for more information about how to install and use Docker Compose, as well as helpful commands.

Getting Started

Installing Hummingbot alongside Gateway lets you access data and execute orders on DEX connectors.

To enable this, you will do need a few things first:

Install and configure the Hummingbot and Gateway instances
Generate self-signed certificates in Hummingbot
Give Gateway the passphrase used to generate the certificates (GATEWAY_PASSPHRASE)

Verify that Docker Compose is installed correctly by checking the version:

docker compose version

The output should be: Docker Compose version v2.17.2 or similar. Ensure that you are using Docker Compose V2, as V1 is deprecated.

1. Launch network

Clone this repo to your machine and go to the folder:

git clone https://github.com/hummingbot/deploy-examples.git
cd deploy-examples/hummingbot_gateway_compose

Alternatively, copy the docker-compose.yml file to a directory on your machine where you want to store your Hummingbot files.

This is the "root folder" where your encrypted keys, scripts, trades, configs, logs, and other files related to your bots will be saved.

From the root folder, run the following command to pull the image and start the instance:

docker compose up -d

After the images have been downloaded, you should see the following output:

[+] Running 3/3
 ⠿ Network hummingbot_gateway_compose_default     Created
 ⠿ Container hummingbot                           Started
 ⠿ Container gateway                              Started

2. Set permissions and other initialization operations

Run this command from your root folder to grant read/write permission to the hummingbot_files and gateway_files sub-folders:

sudo chmod -R a+rw ./hummingbot_files ./gateway_files

Populate Hummingbot scripts folder with example scripts from the Hummingbot image:

docker cp hummingbot:/home/hummingbot/scripts-copy/. ./hummingbot_files/scripts/

Populate Gateway lists folder from token lists from the Gateway image:

docker cp gateway:/home/gateway/src/templates/lists/. ./gateway_files/conf/lists/

3. Launch Hummingbot and generate certificates

Now, attach to the hummingbot instance:

docker attach hummingbot

You should see the Hummingbot welcome screen:

Set your Hummingbot password and write it down. This is the CONFIG_PASSWORD environment variable in your docker-compose.yml file.

Run the following command to generate Gateway certificates:

gateway generate-certs

You'll be prompted for a passphrase used to generate the certificates. This is the GATEWAY_PASSPHRASE environment variable in your docker-compose.yml file.

Hummingbot will use the passphrase to generate the certificates and save them in the hummingbot_files/certs folder, which is mapped to the /home/hummingbot/certs in the image. This location is also mapped to /home/gateway/certs, where the Gateway instance will look for the certificates it needs.

Afterwards, run exit to exit Hummingbot.

4. Remove network

Once you're back in Bash/Terminal, run the following command to remove the Compose project:

docker compose down

You should see the following output:

[+] Running 3/3 
 ⠿ Container gateway                            Removed
 ⠿ Container hummingbot                         Removed
 ⠿ Network hummingbot_gateway_compose_default   Removed

5. Modify YAML file

Now, use an IDE like VSCode to edit the docker-compose.yml file.

Edit the section that defines the CONFIG_PASSWORD and CONFIG_FILE_NAME environment variables:

  hummingbot:
    # environment:
      #  - CONFIG_PASSWORD=[password]
  gateway:
    # environment:
      #  - GATEWAY_PASSPHRASE=[passphrase]

Uncomment out:

The environment: lines
The CONFIG_PASSWORD lines: add your Hummingbot password
The GATEWAY_PASSPHRASE line: add the passphrase you used to generate the certificates

The final environment section of the YAML file should look like this:

  hummingbot:
    environment:
      - CONFIG_PASSWORD=[password]
  gateway:
    environment:
      - GATEWAY_PASSPHRASE=[passphrase]

Afterwards, save the file.

6. Recreate network

Now, recreate the Compose project:

docker compose up -d

Attach to the hummingbot instance. If you have defined CONFIG_PASSWORD in the YAML file, you don't need to enter it again:

docker attach hummingbot

After you enter your password, you should now see GATEWAY:ONLINE in the upper-right hand corner.

Open a new Terminal/Bash window. In it, attach to the gateway instance to see its logs:

docker attach gateway

See Gateway for more details on how to configure it for use with Hummingbot.

To get started with Hummingbot, check out the following docs: