testnet-ops/nitro-bridge-setup

nitro-bridge-setup

Prerequisites

• Setup Ansible: To get started, follow the installation guide to setup ansible on your machine.

• Setup user: Follow steps from Setup a user to setup a new user with passwordless sudo

Setup

The following commands have to be executed in the nitro-bridge-setup directory:

• Copy the bridge-vars.example.yml vars file:

  cp bridge-vars.example.yml bridge-vars.yml
  

• Edit bridge-vars.yml with the required values:

  # L1 WS endpoint
  nitro_chain_url: ""
  
  # Private key for the bridge's nitro address
  nitro_sc_pk: ""
  
  # Private key for a funded account on L1
  # This account should have tokens for funding Nitro channels
  nitro_chain_pk: ""
  
  # Custom L2 token to be deployed
  token_name: "LaconicNetworkToken"
  token_symbol: "LNT"
  initial_token_supply: "129600"
  
  # Addresses of the deployed nitro contracts
  na_address: ""
  vpa_address: ""
  ca_address: ""
  

Run Nitro Bridge

• Create a new hosts.ini file:

  cp ../hosts.example.ini hosts.ini
  

• Edit the hosts.ini file:

  [<deployment_host>]
  <host_name> ansible_host=<target_ip> ansible_user=<ssh_user> ansible_ssh_common_args='-o ForwardAgent=yes'
  

  • Replace <deployment_host> with nitro_host
  • Replace <host_name> with the alias of your choice
  • Replace <target_ip> with the IP address or hostname of the target machine
  • Replace <ssh_user> with the SSH username (e.g., dev, ubuntu)

• Verify that you are able to connect to the host using the following command:

  ansible all -m ping -i hosts.ini -k
  
  # Expected output:
  
  # <host_name> | SUCCESS => {
  #  "ansible_facts": {
  #      "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python3.10"
  #  },
  #  "changed": false,
  #  "ping": "pong"
  # }
  

• Execute the run-nitro-bridge.yml Ansible playbook for deploying nitro bridge:

  LANG=en_US.utf8 ansible-playbook -i hosts.ini run-nitro-bridge.yml --extra-vars='{ "target_host": "nitro_host"}'  --user $USER -kK
  

  NOTE: By default, deployments are created in an out directory. To change this location, update the nitro_directory variable in the setup-vars.yml file

• For skipping container build, run with "skip_container_build" : true in the --extra-vars parameter:

  LANG=en_US.utf8 ansible-playbook -i hosts.ini run-nitro-bridge.yml --extra-vars='{ "target_host": "nitro_host", "skip_container_build": true }' --user $USER -kK
  

Check Deployment Status

• Run the following command in the directory where the bridge-deployment is created:

  • Check logs for deployments:

    # Check the bridge deployment logs, ensure that the node is running
    laconic-so deployment --dir bridge-deployment logs nitro-bridge -f