Setup instructions

April 10, 2023 ยท View on GitHub

Setup instructions for Validators provided by enby collective (incomplete!)

Prepare your validator

  • ssh into your validator: ssh root@IP_ADDRESS_VALIDATOR
  • adduser ansible
  • usermod -aG sudo ansible
  • visudo (alternatively sudo ap-get install nano && sudo Editor=nano visudo)
    add the following last line: \ 
    ansible ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
  • logout of your validator / shh connection
  • ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ansible@IP_ADDRESS_VALIDATOR

Prepare your Ansible setup:

  • sudo apt-get install ansible
  • ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
  • gh clone https://github.com/enby-collective/validator.git
  • cd validator
  • cp inventory.sample inventory
  • edit your inventory file and update it as follows :
    • replace the IP_ADDRESS_VALIDATOR with the IP of your server
    • in the domain_name add the Hostname of your server
    • in the letsencrypt_email add your email
    • give your assigned values in validator_name, log_name, under [kusama:children], loki_password and data_password
  • Open the group_vars/kusama.yml file and update the value of polkadot_db_snapshot_url so that it reflects the latest snapshot from https://polkachu.com/snapshots/kusama
  • Open the group_vars/validators.yml file and update the value of the polkadot_version with the version that correspond to the latest polkadot release.

Start the Ansible setup

  • Before running the command ansible-playbook -i inventory polkadot_full_setup.yml -e "target=kusama1" make sure to update the value of target to the kusama name that corresponds to your server, e.g. kusama2 or kusama3, etc.