Run Your Own Node on Amber/Flint Testnet

Run Your Own Node on Amber/Flint Testnet

System Requirements The system has not been officially load-tested yet but a machine with the following specs will be able to run a validator for Flint

  • 4 GB RAM
  • 50 GB disk
  • Standard desktop/server CPU

Validators for the testnet are being run on

  • Google Cloud n1-standard-1 instances
  • Digital Ocean droplets with 2GB Memory, 1vCPU
  • Standard desktop machines with Docker
  • Theoretically also runable on Raspberry Pi 4, but not confirmed

To run your own node, you have 2 options:

  1. Docker Container This is the recommended way to experiment with your own node. It will get you started within 5 minutes. Since docker is running pre-build containers, this setup minimizes the steps required to get started and isolates any potential issues.

  2. Bare Metal Running a bare metal setup requires you to compile centrifuge chain from source, which can take between a 10 minutes up to 4 hours, depending on your specs. For a production grade setup, we do recommend to run a bare metal validators for 2 reasons: a) It minimizes the tools involved, which increases security, b) The performance is slightly supperior.

Option 1) Run your node in a Docker Container

  1. Ensure you have docker as well as subkey installed.
  2. Generate a new key pair with subkey that will be used as your node-key: subkey generate. Make sure you save the output in a safe place.
  3. Start your node by running the following, where {name} is the name that will show up in Polkadot Telemetry and {node-key} is the private key you just generated (without the 0x prefix). Note that we do expose RPC and WS ports here for simplicity – these ports should not be exposed in a production grade setup.

a) Amber: 

1docker run -p 30333:30333 -p 9933:9933 -p 9944:9944 --rm -it centrifugeio/centrifuge-chain:20200203153054-c2132bb     centrifuge-chain     --validator     --name="{name}"     --node-key={node-key}     --chain=amber     --bootnodes=/ip4/35.242.216.93/tcp/30333/p2p/QmeoT4nzw5QDRaqdkBfnaqW9grMTLiEuYUpu4hSbseKB8C     --bootnodes=/ip4/34.89.161.185/tcp/30333/p2p/QmbNXcLkbD7Z2BaSUTfqb1VEkEDTij9rhS79b8F2uiJ3Ki     --bootnodes=/ip4/35.246.201.166/tcp/30333/p2p/QmX1hSCYFgeW876VQvWYkkmxon91ofvsnmk8ceCk1i8Tyv     --bootnodes=/ip4/35.242.226.138/tcp/30333/p2p/QmW2NQVT1nLqAJCsxXixHkuCN93bCbbdminYKNSGyEX77R     --unsafe-rpc-external --unsafe-ws-external --rpc-cors="*"

b) Flint:

1docker run -p 30333:30333 -p 9933:9933 -p 9944:9944 --rm -it centrifugeio/centrifuge-chain:20200117180836-638b681     centrifuge-chain     --validator     --name="{name}"     --node-key={node-key}     --chain=/resources/flint-cc2-spec.json     --bootnodes=/ip4/34.89.190.227/tcp/30333/p2p/QmdMJoLc6yduqfrJtMAB6xHegydr3YXzfDCZWEYsaCJaRZ     --bootnodes=/ip4/35.234.68.18/tcp/30333/p2p/Qma5M7P5qym3Gfgp1wu6yk1QyMv2RzFV9GztP9AxHoK8PK     --bootnodes=/ip4/35.246.244.114/tcp/30333/p2p/QmdjEGZ9ZNVv4aTGGV46AkBqgCdWTHrh9wr9itYhs61gJA     --bootnodes=/ip4/34.89.148.219/tcp/30333/p2p/QmNd8inSbEvFuwbRToj5VQBNReqtb414oWGyDjF7tQ1qfX     --unsafe-rpc-external --unsafe-ws-external --rpc-cors="*"
  1. Generate new session keys in your node's keystore by running: curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{ "jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"author_rotateKeys", "id": 1 }' http://127.0.0.1:9933 This command will return the public keys under the "result" field starting with 0x..., which you should copy in order to use them in the next chapter.

Option 2) Run a bare metal node

  1. Install dependencies:

    a) On Unix systems (Debian, Ubuntu, ...): sudo apt install -y cmake pkg-config libssl-dev git gcc build-essential clang libclang-dev

    b) On MacOS: brew install openssl cmake llvm

  2. Install Rust: curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

  3. Make sure that you are using the latest Rust stable by default: rustup default stable

  4. Install nightly for WASM support: rustup update nightly

  5. Add the WASM target: rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown --toolchain nightly

  6. Clone centrifuge-chain:

    a) Amber: git clone -b v0.0.2 git@github.com:centrifuge/centrifuge-chain.git

    b) Flint: git clone -b v0.0.1 git@github.com:centrifuge/centrifuge-chain.git

  7. Change directory: cd centrifuge-chain

  8. Optional - run the tests: cargo test --all

  9. Build Centrifuge Chain: cargo build --release

  10. Ensure you have subkey installed (can be on another machine).

  11. Generate a new key pair with subkey that will be used as your node-key: subkey generate. Make sure you save the output in a safe place.

  12. Find out your current working directory: pwd

  13. Create a service, where {pwd} is your current working directory, {name} is the name that will show up in Polkadot Telemetry and {node-key} is the private key you just generated (without the 0x prefix): vim /etc/systemd/system/centrifuge-chain.service

a) Amber:

1[Unit]
2Description=Centrifuge Chain Validator
3After=network.target
4StartLimitIntervalSec=0
5
6[Service]
7Type=simple
8Restart=always
9RestartSec=1
10ExecStart={pwd}/target/release/centrifuge-chain     --validator     --name="{name}"     --node-key={node_key}     --chain=amber     --bootnodes=/ip4/35.242.216.93/tcp/30333/p2p/QmeoT4nzw5QDRaqdkBfnaqW9grMTLiEuYUpu4hSbseKB8C     --bootnodes=/ip4/34.89.161.185/tcp/30333/p2p/QmbNXcLkbD7Z2BaSUTfqb1VEkEDTij9rhS79b8F2uiJ3Ki     --bootnodes=/ip4/35.246.201.166/tcp/30333/p2p/QmX1hSCYFgeW876VQvWYkkmxon91ofvsnmk8ceCk1i8Tyv     --bootnodes=/ip4/35.242.226.138/tcp/30333/p2p/QmW2NQVT1nLqAJCsxXixHkuCN93bCbbdminYKNSGyEX77R
11
12[Install]
13WantedBy=multi-user.target

b) Flint:

1[Unit]
2Description=Centrifuge Chain Validator
3After=network.target
4StartLimitIntervalSec=0
5
6[Service]
7Type=simple
8Restart=always
9RestartSec=1
10ExecStart={pwd}/target/release/centrifuge-chain     --validator     --name="{name}"     --node-key={node_key}     --chain=flint     --bootnodes=/ip4/34.89.190.227/tcp/30333/p2p/QmdMJoLc6yduqfrJtMAB6xHegydr3YXzfDCZWEYsaCJaRZ     --bootnodes=/ip4/35.234.68.18/tcp/30333/p2p/Qma5M7P5qym3Gfgp1wu6yk1QyMv2RzFV9GztP9AxHoK8PK     --bootnodes=/ip4/35.246.244.114/tcp/30333/p2p/QmdjEGZ9ZNVv4aTGGV46AkBqgCdWTHrh9wr9itYhs61gJA     --bootnodes=/ip4/34.89.148.219/tcp/30333/p2p/QmNd8inSbEvFuwbRToj5VQBNReqtb414oWGyDjF7tQ1qfX
11
12[Install]
13WantedBy=multi-user.target
  1. Start your service: systemctl start centrifuge-chain
  2. Enable automatic restarts of your service after every boot: systemctl enable centrifuge-chain
  3. To view and follow your logs, run tail -f /var/log/syslog
  4. Generate new session keys in your node's keystore by running: curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{ "jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"author_rotateKeys", "id": 1 }' http://127.0.0.1:9933 This command will return the public keys under the "result" field starting with 0x..., which you should copy in order to use them in the next chapter.
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