How to run a full node on Frietor Saar?

Full node deployment guide for the Frietor Saar testnet blockchain! This guide is based on ubuntu 20.04 LTS. You can use any other operating system, but the commands may be different.

Requirements

• OS - See Supported Operating Systems
• vCPUs >= 4
• RAM - at least 16GB
• Disk space (Important)
  • At least 1TB for the data directory ( recommended SSD ), solid-state drive(SSD), gp3, 8k IOPS, 250MB/S throughput, read latency less than 1ms. (for the best performance, it will need NVMe SSD) Data disk mount to /datas
• Suggested m5zn.3xlarge instance type on AWS, c2-standard-16 on Google cloud.
• A broadband Internet connection with upload/download speeds of 5 megabyte per second.
• curl or wget
• git
• tar
• gzip
• Latest Frietor Binary For Your Operating System - See Supported Operating Systems

Snapshots

• You can get snapshots from - https://github.com/Esportzvio/FrietorSaar_Snapshots (opens in a new tab) (updated every 24 hours)

Download and Installation

• Download the latest Frietor binary for your operating system from the Supported Operating Systems page.
• Extract the downloaded archive.

Create Data Directory

• Create a directory for the Frietor blockchain data.

mkdir -p data

Recover data from snapshot

git clone https://github.com/Esportzvio/FrietorSaar_Snapshots.git
cd FrietorSaar_Snapshots
gunzip -c Snapshot-${Date in YYYY-MM-DD}.dat.gz | ./frietor server --restore - --data-dir ../data

Download The Saar Testnet Genesis File

• Download the Saar testnet genesis file to the same directory as the frietor binary.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Esportzvio/FrietorChain/main/genesis-saar.json -O genesis.json

• Alternatively, you can copy the genesis file from here

Generate Secrets

• Polygon Edge uses a vault manager to store secrets such as validator keys, wallet keys, and passwords. You can use any vault manager from (AWS SSM , Google Secret Manager, Hashicorp Vault) to store secrets. The following examples will use AWS SSM.

Secrets Configuration

• Create a folder named secrets_config in the same directory as the frietor binary.

mkdir -p secrets_config

• Create a file named aws.json in the secrets_config folder.

touch secrets_config/aws.json

• Open the secrets_config/aws.json file using nano or your preferred text editor.

nano secrets_config/aws.json

• Add The Following Content To secrets_config/aws.json.

{
  "Type": "aws-ssm",
  "Name": "node",
  "Extra": {
    "region": "ap-south-1",
    "ssm-parameter-path": "/frietor-saar"
  }
}

• Replace the name, region and ssm-parameter-path values with the name, region and path of your AWS SSM parameter store. (Optional)

• Save the file and exit the text editor.

Secret Generation

• Run the following command to generate secrets.

./frietor polybftsecrets generate --secrets-config secrets_config

• The command will generate a file named secrets.json in the same directory as the frietor binary.

• Check The secrets.json File To Make Sure It Contains The Following Keys.

cat secrets.json

The Output Should Be Similar To The Following.

{
  "address": "",
  "bls_private_key": "",
  "bls_pubkey": "",
  "generated": "",
  "insecure": "false",
  "node_id": "",
  "private_key": ""
}

Start The Node

• Run the following command to start the node.

./frietor server --data-dir data -secrets-config secrets_config/aws.json --chain genesis.json --relayer --seal

• The node will start syncing with the network. It will take a few minutes to sync with the network.

• By Default The Node Will Start Services On The Following Ports.

Check The Node Status

• Run the following command to check the node status.

./frietor status

Setting custom parameters