More of half thoughts and documentation of what I did to get pihole running in docker on my pine64 at home. This is not intended to be a complete or through guide. Please google or duckduckgo for the full process of setting this up. Note: as of May 5, 2018, the docker image does not have dns logging enabled and I have been unable to turn it on manually.

some defs

• Pine64: “The Pine A64 is an index card sized 64-bit single board computer. It can perform like your desktop or portable PC with browsing the Internet, playing games, watching video, and execute programs like spreadsheets and word-processing. The Pine A64 board can also play ultra high definition 4Kx2K video.”
• Docker: “Docker provides a way to run applications securely isolated in a container, packaged with all its dependencies and libraries.”
• pihole: “A black hole for Internet advertisements”

install docker

1. add some pre-reqs

     sudo apt-get install \
     apt-transport-https \
     ca-certificates \
     curl \
     gnupg2 \
     software-properties-common
   

2. add docker signing key curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo apt-key add - (src)
3. add deb https://download.docker.com/linux/debian jessie stable to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list
4. actually install docker sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install docker-ce

pull image + run

1. create some configs

2. create docker service to run in background with name = pihole and configs located in current directory

     IP_LOOKUP="$(ip route get 8.8.8.8 | awk '{ print $NF; exit }')"  # May not work for VPN / tun0
     IP="${IP:-$IP_LOOKUP}"  # use $IP, if set, otherwise IP_LOOKUP
     DOCKER_CONFIGS="$(pwd)"  # Default of directory you run this from, update to where ever.
   

     docker run -d \
    --name pihole \
    -p 53:53/tcp -p 53:53/udp -p 80:80 \
    -v "${DOCKER_CONFIGS}/pihole/:/etc/pihole/" \
    -v "${DOCKER_CONFIGS}/dnsmasq.d/:/etc/dnsmasq.d/" \
    -e ServerIP="${IP:-$(ip route get 8.8.8.8 | awk '{ print $NF; exit }')}" \
    --restart=always \
    diginc/pi-hole-multiarch:debian_aarch64
   

   note: must use diginc/pi-hole-multiarch:debian_aarch64, other ones will not run on the pine64

3. to have pihole start on boot, run crontab -e and add the line @reboot docker start pihole