3) Download & Launch Playbooks
Complete 1) Local Tooling Setup and 2) AWS Initial Setup before proceeding.
Generate private keys for the Master of Ceremony (MoC) and 3 Validator accounts (4 accounts total). Use MetaMask or myetherwallet to generate private keys and save as json keystore file + password. Note the json location, wallet address, and password for each file.
Choose and write down a name for the future Network (Genesis Network Name).
Choose and write down a secret password for the Netstat Server.
Record and keep this information handy for installation:
MoC wallet address
MoC wallet password
Validator wallet addresses
Validator wallet passwords
Genesis Network Name
Netstat Password
From AWS Setup:
AWS user name
AWS Access key ID
AWS Secret access key
AWS keypair_name
1) Clone repositories with playbooks. https://github.com/poanetwork/deployment-playbooks
git clone https://github.com/poanetwork/deployment-playbooks.git
2) Switch to aws directory.
cd deployment-playbooks/aws
3) Create configuration file. Start with the Netstat server
cp group_vars/all.yml.example group_vars/all.yml
4) Edit all.yml, replacing the following parameters:
access_key: your-AWS-access-keysecret_key: your-AWS-secret-keyawskeypair_name: "keypairname"region: "us-east-1"vpc_id: "vpc-ID-number"vpc_subnet_id: "subnet-ID-number"
Depending on your resource needs (or for testing purposes) you can save costs by changing all instances of "t2.large" to "t2.small"
5) Launch the netstat playbook
ansible-playbook netstat.yml
It should complete without errors, and a new instance created in AWS EC2. You will see the new node's IP address in the logs. Write it down (you can also retrieve from AWS later if needed).
If you get the following error, try adding a private-key flag to the command. fatal: [ip.address]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "SSH Error: data could not be sent to remote host \"ip.address\". Make sure this host can be reached over ssh", "unreachable": true}
ansible-playbook netstat.yml --private-key=~/.ssh/your-private-key
6) Repeat the same process for MoC and Bootnode playbooks.
ansible-playbook moc.ymlansible-playbook bootnode.yml
7) For validator nodes, change the value of validator_instance_name for each new validator.
ansible-playbook validator.yml -e "validator_instance_name=validator-1"ansible-playbook validator.yml -e "validator_instance_name=validator-2"ansible-playbook validator.yml -e "validator_instance_name=validator-3"
You should now have 6 nodes running on AWS: 1x for future MoC, 1x netstat, 1x bootnode, 3x validators. Next: Configure Instances.
