testnet-ops/service-provider-setup

service-provider-setup

Prerequisites

• Setup Ansible: follow the installation guide to setup ansible on your machine

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

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 laconicd-vars.example.yml laconicd-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
  service_provider_ip: ""           # eg: 23.111.78.179
  do_api_token: ""                  # DigitalOcean 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
  org_id: ""                        # eg: lcn
  location_id: ""                   # eg: cad
  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/laconicd-vars.yml
  chain_id: "" # chain id to use for the Laconic chain
  
  # vars/webapp-vars.yml
  authority_name: ""                # eg: laconic-authority
  cpu_reservation: "1"              # minimum number of cpu cores to be used, eg: 2
  memory_reservation: "2G"          # minimum amount of memory in GB to be used, eg: 4G
  cpu_limit: "6"                    # maximum number of cpu cores to be used, eg: 6
  memory_limit: "8G"                # maximum amount of memory in GB to be used, eg: 8G
  deployer_gpg_passphrase: ""       # passphrase for creating GPG key used by webapp-deployer, eg: SECRET
  handle_auction_requests: "true"   # whether the webapp deployer should handle deployment auction requests, eg: true
  auction_bid_amount: "100000"      # bid amount for deployment auctions in alnt, eg: 500000
  

• Update the hosts.ini file:

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