The easiest way to run you SORA mainnet node

This guide is testet on Ubuntu 20.04 and probably will work flawless on 18 as well.

It also implies that you are working under a user with sudo priveleges, to do so, run from root:

export NEWUSER=sora
adduser $NEWUSER
usermod -aG sudo $NEWUSER
echo "$NEWUSER  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
su - $NEWUSER

If you're running from root, you know what you're doing for sure :)

Installation

1. Install docker

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
sudo sh get-docker.sh
sudo usermod -aG docker ${USER}
newgrp docker
sudo service docker restart

and docker-compose

sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.27.4/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

2. Clone this repository to your server

cd $HOME; git clone https://github.com/ama31337/sora-tips.git

3. Create Sora working dir and copy docker-compose

mkdir -p ${HOME}/sora2/chain
sudo chown 10000:10000 ${HOME}/sora2/chain
cp ${HOME}/sora-tips/docker-compose.yml ${HOME}/sora2

4. Edit your node name in docker-compose with your preffered text editor

vim ${HOME}/sora2/docker-compose.yml

or

nano ${HOME}/sora2/docker-compose.yml

5. Create aliases

echo "" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "# sora aliases" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "alias sorastart='cd ${HOME}/sora2; docker-compose up -d'" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "alias sorastop='cd ${HOME}/sora2; docker-compose down'" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "alias soralogs='docker logs -f --tail=1000 sora-mainnet'" >> ~/.bashrc
source  ~/.bashrc

6. Start node

sorastart

Check logs

soralogs

Stop node

sorastop

You can check your node sync status on:

https://telemetry.polkadot.io/#/SORA

And interact with the network via our RPC on:

https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fsora.lux8.net#/staking

To rotate node keys, run

docker exec $(docker ps -aqf "name=sora-mainnet") curl -s http://localhost:9933 -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"id":1, "jsonrpc":"2.0", "method": "author_rotateKeys", "params":[]}'

If you find this helpful, stake with us: https://lux8.net/sora

Other comminity members work:

If you want your own RPC running on the node, check this guide:

https://github.com/ciprianiacobescu/Composed-Xor-Validator