**🐲🦑 THERE BE DRAGONS AND SQUIDS. This is in alpha state and you can expect running into problems. If you run into them, please open up [a new issue](https://github.com/oceanprotocol/docker-images/issues). 🦑🐲**
The keeper-contracts component runs with ganache by default and every run will produce and deploy new instances of the keeper contracts.
Ganache can be run with a specific database path by setting the env var `REUSE_DATABASE` to "true". By default, the ganache database will be setup in the cwd.
* DEPLOY_CONTRACTS: skip deploying smart contracts by setting this to "false", in this case `REUSE_DATABASE` should be set to True in the previous run when using ganache
* ARTIFACTS_FOLDER: this is where the deployed smart contracts abi files will be available. This can be pointed at any path you like. When running a separate pleuston instance, it may be necessary to copy the abi files from this artifacts folder to the @oceanprotocol/keeper-contracts/artifacts folder in pleuston
A subset of the components can be run by modifying the docker-compose file directly or by using one of the other pre-built compose files:
*`docker-compose-no-pleuston.yml` runs all components without the pleuston. This is useful for developing/debugging the front-end app. So first the docker compose container can be started then pleuston can be started separately from source. You can also use `./start_ocean.sh --no-pleuston` to do this
*`docker-compose-local-parity-node.yml` is similar to the above with no pleuston, but runs a local parity POA node instead of ganache-cli. You can also use `./start_ocean.sh --local-parity-node` instead
We use GitHub as a means for maintaining and tracking issues and source code development.
If you would like to contribute, please fork this repository, do work in a feature branch, and finally open a pull request for maintainers to review your changes.
Ocean Protocol uses [C4 Standard process](https://github.com/unprotocols/rfc/blob/master/1/README.md) to manage changes in the source code. Find here more details about [Ocean C4 OEP](https://github.com/oceanprotocol/OEPs/tree/master/1).