🏴‍☠️ Node Provisioning

So you want to mine silva, Marooch?

1. Join our Discord, navigate to the validator channel and introduce yourself.
   1. You will need to provide your future node’s domain name and have access to managing the DNS settings for that name.
   2. You will get two sets of credentials - CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET.
2. Create an AWS account to receive credits or use your existing environment.
3. Make sure you are in us-east-1 (select in upper right corner)
4. Download EC2 Strato Node Template File mercata-ec2-instance.yml from GitHub.
5. In AWS Set up your EC2. Go to CloudFormation and click [ Create stack ].
   1. Use mercata-ec2-instance.yml template from step 3.
6. Update your DNS A record with the EC2 instances public IP
7. Connect to the instance to finish installation. Go to EC2 > Instances.
   1. Click on the Instance ID of the new node and connect to the instance.
8. Install the node.
   1. Check prerequisites are ready. In the terminal enter command sudo systemctl is-active docker , if it returns active the CloudFormation script has worked and has set up the prerequisites to deploy your node!
   2. Install STRATO. Type sudo bash /tmp/mercata-aws-node/strato_setup.sh . Enter your node’s domain name, as well as CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET you got from us.
   3. Install SLL. Run sudo python3 /tmp/mercata-aws-node/ssl_setup.py and enter your email and node’s domain name.
   4. Launch STRATO. Go to launch directory cd /datadrive/strato-getting-started/ and run sudo ./strato-run.sh then launch provided link in browser after the install to verify you are up and running.
9. Return to Discord and inform us that your node is running. The elders will vote you in, connecting your node to the mainnet. This will make you eligible for all the benefits and rewards of our Validator Program.

Notes

• Run sudo bash /tmp/mercata-aws-node/update.sh to clone latest git version of this

• To access strato node cd /datadrive/strato-getting-started/ sudo ./strato --help

• To troubleshoot deployment run sudo docker ps