This tutorial will use our Azure 1-click Deployment image to start and create the latest Croeseid Testnet validator or full node.
CAUTION We do not recommend directly running validator on Mainnet by 1-Click deployment. Please use it with caution! Because the 1-click deployment is not running with TMKMS and your tendermint validator key is in plain text /chain/.chain-maind/config/priv_validator_key.json. You may consider running validator with tmkms on AWS nitro-enclave
Step 1. Azure Account Creation
You will first need to create a Microsoft Azure account with a Pay-As-You-Go subscription. This will require providing your credit card information to Microsoft Azure and you may be subject to getting charged when you create a virtual machine.
Please read Microsoft Azure free trial introduction to see if you are eligible for the free-tier.
Step 2. Common Setup
Step 2-1. Search for Cronos POS Chain on Marketplace
Sign in to your Microsoft Azure account and go to Marketplace. Search for "Cronos POS Chain 1-Click Node".
Step 2-2. Create a Virtual Machine
Choose the image and click "Create" to start creating the Cronos POS Chain 1-Click Node.
You may also enable (Optional)STATE-SYNC. Your node will download data related to the head or near the head of the chain and verify the data. This leads to drastically shorter times for joining a network for validator. For validator, It will be amazingly fast to sync the near head of the chain and join the network.
::: warning CAUTION Blocks before state-sync trust height will NOT be queryable. If you want to run a full node or a validator with complete blockchain data; It is not suggested to use state-sync. :::
...Doyouwanttoenablestate-sync? (Y/N): YState-syncrequirethelatestversionofbinarytostate-syncfromthelatestblock.The binary does not exist or the version does not match the target version. Download the target version binary from github release.
💾Downloadingcrypto-org-chain-mainnet-1binary%Total%Received%XferdAverageSpeedTimeTimeTimeCurrentDloadUploadTotalSpentLeftSpeed1006441006440061920--:--:----:--:----:--:--619210013.7M10013.7M0043.6M0--:--:----:--:----:--:--43.6M
Clean up the old blockchain data (if any)
...Resetchain-maindandremovedataifany❗️Enter (Y/N) to confirm to delete any old data: YStoppingchain-maindservice3:18PMINFRemovedallblockchainhistorydir=/chain/.chain-maind/data3:18PM INF Generated private validator file keyFile=/chain/.chain-maind/config/priv_validator_key.json stateFile=/chain/.chain-maind/data/priv_validator_state.json
❗️/chain/.chain-maind/config/priv_validator_key.jsonalreadyexists!Doyouwanttooverrideoldkey? (Y/N): YA new priv_validator_key.json with pubkey: open /chain/.chain-maind/config/priv_validator_key.json: no such file or directory
💡 Please make sure you have a backup of /chain/.chain-maind/config/priv_validator_key.json in case of unexpected accidents!
The consensus public key information could be found in /chain/.chain-maind/config/priv_validator_key.json
Backup your old /chain/.chain-maind/config/priv_validator_key.json if you created once.
❗️/chain/.chain-maind/config/priv_validator_key.jsonalreadyexists!Doyouwanttooverrideoldkey? (Y/N): YA new priv_validator_key.json with pubkey: open /chain/.chain-maind/config/priv_validator_key.json: no such file or directory
💡 Please make sure you have a backup of /chain/.chain-maind/config/priv_validator_key.json in case of unexpected accidents!
The script will also ask you to fill in the moniker value which is a human-readable display name for tendermint p2p. p2p gossip will allow you to connect with more nodes (data sources).