Lightning node how to: https://medium.com/@dougvk/run-your-own-mainnet-lightning-node-2d2eab628a8b
(snip)no cloud needed. cloud is not even mentioned in this tutorial. install docker on your linux system and run the commands from the tutorial.
After some thought, I'd like to try installing lightningd along my already running bitcoind. Which means, I would like to avoid building one more copy/instance of bitcoind inside the Docker container. This probably means no private network between bitcoind and lightningd, but plain old loopback or similar.
Do you think it can be done? Any caveats, gotchas, likely pitfalls etc?




