ipfs/kubo repository overview

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Kubo: IPFS Implementation in GO

The first implementation of IPFS.

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⁠What is Kubo?

Kubo was the first IPFS implementation and is the most widely used one today. Implementing the Interplanetary Filesystem - the standard for content-addressing on the Web, interoperable with HTTP. Thus powered by future-proof data models and the libp2p for network communication. Kubo is written in Go.

⁠Featureset

• Runs an IPFS-Node as a network service that is part of LAN and WAN DHT
• Native support for UnixFS (most popular way to represent files and directories on IPFS)
• HTTP Gateway⁠ (/ipfs and /ipns) functionality for trusted and trustless⁠ content retrieval
• HTTP Routing V1⁠ (/routing/v1) client and server implementation for delegated routing⁠ lookups
• HTTP Kubo RPC API⁠ (/api/v0) to access and control the daemon
• Command Line Interface⁠ based on (/api/v0) RPC API
• WebUI⁠ to manage the Kubo node
• Metrics⁠ and Content blocking⁠ support for operators of public nodes

⁠Docker Documentation

• README⁠
• Run IPFS inside Docker⁠
  • Set up⁠
  • Customizing your node by mounting scripts in the /container-init.d directory in the container⁠