tokenbridge/deployment-bridge/upgradable-wo-parity

Deploying bridge authority node

Prerequisites

1. Launch an Ubuntu 16.04 server on your favourite hosting provider and note its IP address. You should setup ssh access to your node via public+private keys (using passwords is less secure). When creating the node, set a meaningful hostname that can identify you (e.g. validator-0x...).

2. On your local machine install

   • Python 2 (v2.6-v2.7)/Python3 (v3.5+)
   • Ansible v2.3+
   • Git

Preparing configuration file

1. Clone this repository and go to upgradable-wo-parity folder

git clone https://github.com/poanetwork/deployment-bridge.git
cd upgradable-wo-parity

2. Create file hosts.yml from hosts.yml.template

cp hosts.yml.template hosts.yml

This file contains parameters specific to your node, so you need to edit it and replace/provide missing values. Let's review the parameters:

• core-foundation - name of the bridge you want to deploy. Unless deploying a custom bridge, you don't need to change this line
• 192.0.2.1 - replace with your node's IP address
• ansible_user - user to ssh into your node. Usually it's either ubuntu or root
• ansible_python_interpreter - path to python interpreter on your node. With Ubuntu 16.04 this should work with default value, however if running the playbook you get an error that python3 is not found, try changing this to /usr/bin/python
• signer_keyfile - copy json content ('{...}') of authority's keystore file
• signer_password - set this to authority's password
• syslog_server_port - set this to server:port of syslog server (should be provided to you)

If you're a new validator joining an existing bridge setup, you may want to additionally set the following parameters in hosts.yml:

• last_checked_deposit_relay
• last_checked_withdraw_relay
• last_checked_withdraw_confirm If set, these values overwrite initial block numbers in db.toml, so that your node won't be re-processing transactions that are already processed by existing validators. You should get exact values from other validators before running the playbook.

Installing the node

1. If ssh user can't execute sudo without password, you will need to add --ask-become-pass option below (without [] brackets) and provide sudo password when prompted by the playbook.
2. Run the playbook

ansible-playbook -i hosts.yml [--ask-become-pass] authority-node.yml

3. Playbook should complete without errors

Setup details

To get more details about the setup, go here

Changes required for new bridges

To prepare configuration files for a newly deployed bridg, go here