JoyStream Node Easy Setup Tutorial for Ubuntu

Hello!

In this tutorial you will learn how I run the node on Ubuntu VPS, which is involved in JoyStream network.

System requirements:

-version of 64-bit Ubuntu

2 CPU
4 Gb of RAM
50-60 Gb of free disk space

1. Installing Mobaxterm
2. We connect to the VPS (root)
3. Download and running Node

wget https://github.com/Joystream/joystream/releases/download/v7.5.0/joystream-node-3.3.0-fdb75f5ec-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz

tar -vxf joystream-node-3.3.0-fdb75f5ec-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz

wget https://github.com/Joystream/joystream/releases/download/v7.5.0/joy-testnet-4.json

4. We create a service:

nano /etc/systemd/system/joystream.service

5.We paste the following content, if you do not have root, replace it, also check the paths (******-second username!!!):

[Unit]
Description=Joystream Node
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
WorkingDirectory=/root/
ExecStart=/root/joystream-node \
— chain joy-testnet-4.json \
— pruning archive \
— validator \
— name ******
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=8192

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

7. We save:

ctrl+s > ctrl+x

8.Restart the daemon and start the node:

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start joystream

systemctl enable joystream

9.View logs:

journalctl -n 100 -f -u joystream

Expect full node synchronization. The actual block is 2104246 so you should wait sync ~15–20 hours.

IMPORTANT: Read step 9. carefully. Your node needs to be fully synced, before proceeding to step 10.And after you will see synced logs like these:

10. Configure your validator keys

Open a new connection with the VPS and enter the command

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"id":1, "jsonrpc":"2.0", "method": "author_rotateKeys", "params":[]}' http://localhost:9933

If your node is running, this should return:

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"0xa0very0l........ong0hex0string","id":1}

This will save the session keys to your node. Make sure you don’t close the window before copying the 0xa0very0l........ong0hex0string somewhere.

If your node is not running, is running on a different port, or curl is not installed, it will return something like:

curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 9933: Connection refused
# or
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","error":{"code":-32601,"message":"Method not found"},"id":1}