testnet-ops/service-provider-setup

service-provider-setup

Setup Ansible

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

Prerequisites

• Set up a DigitalOcean Droplet with passwordless SSH access

• Buy a domain and configure nameservers pointing to DigitalOcean

• Generate a DigitalOcean access token, used for API authentication and managing cloud resources

Setup a new User

• Create a new hosts.ini file:

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

• Edit the hosts.ini file to run the playbook on a remote machine:

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

  • Replace <host_name> with the desired hostname of the remote machine
  • Replace <target_ip> with the IP address or hostname of the target machine
  • Replace <ssh_user> with root

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

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

• Setup user-vars.yml using the example file

  cp vars/user-vars.example.yml vars/user-vars.yml
  

• Edit the user-vars.yml file:

  # name of the user you want to setup on the target host
  username: ""
  
  # password of the user you want to setup on the target host
  password: ""
  
  # path to the ssh key on your machine, eg: "/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa.pub"
  path_to_ssh_key: ""
  

• Execute the setup-user.yml Ansible playbook to create a user with passwordless sudo permissions:

  LANG=en_US.utf8 ansible-playbook setup-user.yml -i hosts.ini --extra-vars='{ "target_host": "deployment_host" }'
  

Become a Service Provider

Setup

• Copy the vars files:

  cd vars
  cp dns-vars.example.yml dns-vars.yml
  cp gpg-vars.example.yml gpg-vars.yml
  cp k8s-vars.example.yml k8s-vars.yml
  cp container-vars.example.yml container-vars.yml
  cp webapp-vars.example.yml webapp-vars.yml
  cd -
  

• Update the following values in the respective variable files:

  # vars/dns-vars.yml
  full_domain: ""               # eg: laconic.com
  subdomain_prefix: ""          # eg: lcn-cad
  service_provider_ip: ""        # eg: 23.111.78.179
  do_api_token: ""              # Digital Ocean access token that you generated, eg: dop_v1...
  
  # vars/gpg-vars.yml
  gpg_user_name: ""         # Full name of the user for the GPG key
  gpg_user_email: ""        # Email address associated with the GPG key
  gpg_passphrase: ""        # Passphrase for securing the GPG key
  
  # vars/k8s-vars.yml
  target_host: "deployment_host"
  org_id: ""                    # eg: lcn
  location_id: ""               # eg: cad
  base_domain: ""               # eg: laconic
  support_email: ""             # eg: support@laconic.com
  
  # vars/container-vars.yml
  container_registry_username: "" # username to login to the container registry
  container_registry_password: "" # password to login to the container registry
  
  # vars/webapp-vars.yml
  authority_name: ""      # eg: my-org-name
  cpu_reservation: ""     # Minimum number of cpu cores to be used, eg: 2
  memory_reservation: ""  # Minimum amount of memory in GB to be used, eg: 4G
  deployer_gpg_passphrase: "" # passphrase for creating GPG key used by webapp-deployer, eg: SECRET
  

• Update the hosts.ini file:

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

  • Replace <host_name> with the desired hostname of the remote machine
  • Replace <target_ip> with the IP address or hostname of the target machine
  • Under deployment_host, Replace <ansible_user> with the name of the user you have created

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

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

• Run the service-provider-setup.yml ansible-playbook to:

  • Create DNS records
  • Deploy k8s
  • Setup laconicd and laconic console
  • Setup container registry
  • Deploy the webapp-deployer API and webapp-deployer UI

  LANG=en_US.utf8 ansible-playbook service-provider-setup.yml -i hosts.ini --extra-vars='{ target_host: "deployment_host" }' --user $USER
  

Result

After the playbook finishes executing, the following services will be deployed (your setup should look similar to the example below):

• laconicd chain RPC endpoint: http://lcn-daemon.laconic.com:26657
• laconic console: http://lcn-daemon.laconic.com:8080/registry
• laconicd GQL endpoint: http://lcn-daemon.laconic.com:9473/api
• webapp deployer API: https://webapp-deployer-api.pwa.laconic.com
• webapp deployer UI: https://webapp-deployer-ui.pwa.laconic.com