Node Setup Guide | Dabble Lab Learning

📄️ Introduction

This is a step-by-step guid for setting up a Pocket validator node.

📄️ Getting Started

Before getting started here are a few things you should know.

📄️ 1-1: Setup a server

First, we'll setup a Linux server.

📄️ 1-2: Add a volume

Next, we'll add a volume for more storage.

📄️ 1-3: Configure DNS

Pocket nodes require a DNS name.

📄️ 1-4: Login with SSH

The Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) is a secure way to connect to your Linode instance from a remote machine - like your local computer. We'll be using SSH to complete the remainder of setup process.

📄️ 1-5: Create a user

📄️ 2-1: Install dependencies

📄️ 2-2: Install Go

📄️ 2-3: Install Pocket

📄️ 2-4: Create an account

📄️ 3-1: Create config.json

📄️ 3-2: Create chains.json

📄️ 3-3: Create genesis.json

📄️ 3-4: Set open file limits

📄️ 4-1: Enable UFW

📄️ 4-2: Setup SSL

📄️ 4-3: Configure Nginx

📄️ 5-1: Download Snapshot

📄️ 5-2: Configure systemd

📄️ 5-3: Test everything

📄️ 5-4: Stake your node

📄️ Next Steps