testnet-ops/nitro-node-setup

nitro-node-setup

Setup Ansible

To get started, follow the installation guide to setup ansible on your machine

Run a nitro node

The following commands have to be executed in nitro-node-setup directory

• Copy the nitro-vars-example.yml vars file

  cp nitro-vars-example.yml nitro-vars.yml
  

• Edit nitro-vars.yml and fill in the following values

  # URL endpoint of the L1 chain
  l1_nitro_chain_url: ""
  
  # URL endpoint of the L2 chain
  l2_nitro_chain_url: ""
  
  # Private key for your nitro address
  nitro_sc_pk: ""
  
  # Private key of the account on chain that is used for funding channels in Nitro node
  nitro_chain_pk: ""
  
  # Contract address of NitroAdjudicator
  na_address: ""
  
  # Contract address of VirtualPaymentApp
  vpa_address: ""
  
  # Contract address of ConsensusApp
  ca_address: ""
  
  # Address of the bridge node
  bridge_contract_address: ""
  
  # Multi address of the bridge node
  nitro_bridge_multiaddr ""
  
  # Multi address of your nitro node
  nitro_node_multiaddr: ""
  

• To run a nitro node, execute the run-nitro-node.yml Ansible playbook by running the following command.

  NOTE: By default, deployments are created in the nitro-node-setup/out directory. If you need to change this location, you can update the nitro_directory variable in the setup-vars.yml file.

  LANG=en_US.utf8 ansible-playbook -i localhost, --connection=local run-nitro-node.yml --extra-vars='{ "target_host": "localhost"}' --user $USER
  

  • If you want to skip building the containers, set "skip_container_build" : true in the --extra-vars parameter:

    LANG=en_US.utf8 ansible-playbook -i localhost, --connection=local run-nitro-node.yml --extra-vars='{ "target_host": "localhost", "skip_container_build": true }' --user $USER
    

• Follow steps from Demo to create mirror channels on L2, create virtual channel and make payments