From 23d92e5338fbd01521246bb1c3c987aff288bba0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: erhan yasar <erhanyasarx@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:58:24 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix: default CLIENT to reth in docker-compose.yml

README.md already documents reth as the default execution client, but
docker-compose.yml used geth as the fallback value for the CLIENT
variable. This meant that running docker compose up without explicitly
setting CLIENT=reth would silently start geth instead of reth.

After Base V1 activates (early May 2026), only base-reth-node supports
the network. Having geth as the implicit default increases the risk of
operators missing the migration.

Changed the CLIENT fallback from geth to reth in both the execution and
node service Dockerfile references so the default behaviour matches the
documented default and the post-V1 requirement.

Operators who intentionally run geth can still do so by setting
CLIENT=geth explicitly in their env file.

Fixes #1010.
---
 docker-compose.yml | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 83d2c4c1..9eda3317 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ services:
   execution:
     build:
       context: .
-      dockerfile: ${CLIENT:-geth}/Dockerfile
+      dockerfile: ${CLIENT:-reth}/Dockerfile
     restart: unless-stopped
     ports:
       - "8545:8545" # RPC
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ services:
   node:
     build:
       context: .
-      dockerfile: ${CLIENT:-geth}/Dockerfile
+      dockerfile: ${CLIENT:-reth}/Dockerfile
     restart: unless-stopped
     depends_on:
       - execution