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.
1. Basic
Configuration
Value
Size
Select a recommended one or DC2s_v3
SSH public key source
Choose "existing public key"
SSH public key
Resource group
We suggest creating a new and dedicated one so that you can easily manage resources attached to the instance
2. Disk
Follow default setting
3. Networking
Virtual network, Subnet, Public IP and NIC: "Create new" if you don't have any in that region
4. Management
Follow default setting
Boot diagnostics: default is "On". Set to "Off" if it is not required.
5. Advanced
Follow default setting
6. Tags
Create Tag if needed
7. Review + Create
Click "create" to create your instance
Step 2-3. Connect to your instance
Once the deployment is completed, you can connect to your instance via SSH.
$ ssh ubuntu@PUBLIC_IP
Afterward, go to the chain directory, and you will find all the essential binaries for setting up your node:
$ cd /chain/
$ ll
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 7 crypto crypto 4096 Mar 20 14:51 ./
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Mar 25 09:46 ../
drwxr-xr-x 4 crypto crypto 4096 Mar 20 14:47 .chain-maind/
drwxr-xr-x 2 crypto crypto 4096 Mar 20 14:44 bin/
drwxr-xr-x 2 3434 3434 4096 Mar 5 09:41 node_exporter-1.1.2.linux-amd64/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 crypto crypto 535 Mar 20 14:43 reconfig.sh*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 20 14:43 release_binary/
drwxr-xr-x 2 crypto crypto 4096 Mar 20 14:47 sockets/
Step 3. Running a full node
Step 3-1. Use the reconfiguration script
Now we use the reconfiguration script reconfig.sh to choose the existing networks to join.
$ sudo -u crypto /chain/reconfig.sh
Please select either mainnet(M) or testnet(T) to join (M/T): M
You can select the following networks to join
0. crypto-org-chain-mainnet-1
Please choose the network to join by index (0/1/...): 0
The selected network is crypto-org-chain-mainnet-1
The genesis does not exit or the sha256sum does not match the target one. Download the target genesis from github.
💾 Downloading crypto-org-chain-mainnet-1 genesis
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. :::
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Do you want to enable state-sync? (Y/N): Y
State-sync require the latest version of binary to state-sync from the latest block.
The binary does not exist or the version does not match the target version. Download the target version binary from github release.
💾 Downloading crypto-org-chain-mainnet-1 binary
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 644 100 644 0 0 6192 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 6192
100 13.7M 100 13.7M 0 0 43.6M 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 43.6M
Clean up the old blockchain data (if any)
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Reset chain-maind and remove data if any
❗️ Enter (Y/N) to confirm to delete any old data: Y
Stopping chain-maind service
3:18PM INF Removed all blockchain history dir=/chain/.chain-maind/data
3:18PM 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.json already exists! Do you want to override old key? (Y/N): Y
A 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.json already exists! Do you want to override old key? (Y/N): Y
A 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).
Replace moniker in /chain/.chain-maind/config/config.toml
Moniker is display name for tendermint p2p
moniker: YOUR_MONIKER_NAME
Do you want to add the public IP of this node for p2p gossip? (Y/N): Y
✅ Added public IP to external_address in chain-maind config.toml for p2p gossip
node_id and node_key are the unique identity of your node. Save them for later use.
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Generate and replace node_key in /chain/.chain-maind/config/node_key.json
You may want to save node_id and node_key for later use
node_id: 62cf74XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
node_key: LyQiGlL4HsdHsPXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
chain-maind is now running at the background as a systemd service.
You can check its log by the command journalctl, for example:
$ journalctl -u chain-maind.service -f
-- Logs begin at Wed 2020-12-30 13:51:25 UTC. --
Mar 25 15:34:02 ip-172-31-69-43 chain-maind[2657]: 3:34PM INF finalizing commit of block hash=3CB6E9CFAEB6681797E02547A096C9654A4558701660DCA78182CA1B43AA05F3 height=8460 module=consensus num_txs=3 root=39878A5AC834C6D89ADBC55097A6495FCE8C9E6FF8DE8DAAC5DD7373407A5C6D
Mar 25 15:34:02 ip-172-31-69-43 chain-maind[2657]: 3:34PM INF minted coins from module account amount=7925328957basecro from=mint module=x/bank
Mar 25 15:34:02 ip-172-31-69-43 chain-maind[2657]: 3:34PM INF executed block height=8460 module=state num_invalid_txs=0 num_valid_txs=3
Mar 25 15:34:02 ip-172-31-69-43 chain-maind[2657]: 3:34PM INF updates to validators module=state updates=A7E76081779FF5EE79A765DE4D716B4903D6902B:4266505417
Mar 25 15:34:02 ip-172-31-69-43 chain-maind[2657]: 3:34PM INF commit synced commit=436F6D6D697449447B5B36352032313020313636203639203130203633203137322032372031363120313438203133322031313320313031203135203131302031353720323134203134372034302034203234362032343220323237203231362032362031363220333120313431203231342032303020313239203234345D3A323130437D
Mar 25 15:34:02 ip-172-31-69-43 chain-maind[2657]: 3:34PM INF committed state app_hash=41D2A6450A3FAC1BA1948471650F6E9DD6932804F6F2E3D81AA21F8DD6C881F4 height=8460 module=state num_txs=3
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The consensus public key can be found by and please take a note of it for next steps:
