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🛠️ alphaville testnet-node setup tutorial

Time: 5 min
Difficulty: medium
Required: light terminal experience
Goal: A Syncing Alphaville testnet-node!

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0 - Setup

Requirements: Make sure your server has at least a 500gb ssd and 2 cores.

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DigitalOcean:

Docker Droplet

Contabo:

Contabo Ubuntu Docker Image

continue at step 1

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Other:

First we need to install the tools needed (git, docker & docker-compose):

docker & docker-compose:

Linux

• Docker Engine & docker-compose & postinstall

Windows

• Docker Desktop

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git:

• Linux || Mac || Windows

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1 - Clone the repository:

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git clone https://gitlab.com/zero.io/subzero-node-setup

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2 - Naming your node:

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There is a file named .env in the repository the content is quite manageable This is the name that will show up in the telemetry

NAME=ExampleNode

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3 - Testing the Node:

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We can now easily start the node with:

docker-compose up

Once we verified this works we can actually start the node for long term production:

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4 - Running the Node in production:

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With

docker-compose up -d

the process runs in the background. We can always open the logs with

docker-compose logs -f

to stop the container:

docker-compose down

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5 - Updating the Node:

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docker-compose down
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d

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DONE 🎉🎉🎉