Bare Metal with Docker Compose
Containers... containers everywhere.
Initial setup steps
Congrats, you've chosen the easier and straightforward solution to get to a running Oracle quickly.
First of all, let's move to the proper directory:
From here, we can start running all the scripts, step by step, using the first two chars in the filename as a numerical order, starting from the smallest and going in ascending order.
Although you will only see below a description of some of the steps, please take each and every of them into consideration in regards to your specific setup and situation.
Step by step installation
This step will simply install Docker (Community Edition) on your system to enable containerized application deployments.
This step will install all the necessary Intel SGX components and libraries on your system for secure enclave operations.
You may be asked to reboot your system, but let's wait til the next step to do so.
This step will update your CPU Microcode with the official Intel latest one. At this point, you should reboot your system, as the script may have suggested you.
Reboot done? good! Now you can proceed with:
which is just to verify that the SGX Machine Certificate Unit (MCU) was properly updated. If the current version is the same or higher than the old one, you can continue.
Another quick checking step (that is also optional):
This step will run a quick check about your SGX status and configuration and show the Security Advisories that Intel has published and affect your current hardware.
You should see toward the end of the output, a line containing `SGX QUOTE VERIFY` similar to:
There are some advisories that we mitigate in code (like the ones in the example) but ideally you should have an empty list here.
Creating a payer.json Solana Account
In this phase of the setup you're going to enter a temporary environment and create the Solana Account used by your Oracle. If you don't save the output when suggested to, once you'll leave this temporary container it will be really hard (if not impossible) to retrieve the content and thus the account you created. So please take time to read carefully instructions as you go through each step.
Let's start with:
This step will drop you in a temporary container that will have all the necessary tools to run the following step:
This step will create a new account on the Solana network that will be used by your Oracle and save it in the data directory, in the respective devnet and mainnet files.
By default this script will crate a devnet account, so you want to create one for mainnet you have to call by adding mainnet at the end as shown above.
Once done with the steps above, you can leave the container by typing exit and will be dropped back to the docker installation directory.
Create a request to register your Oracle and Guardian to Switchboard queue
Now that you have a Solana account that can be used by your Oracle, you can send a request to be allowed to cooperate to the Switchboard network by contributing to tasks on a specific queue.
To do so, we have another special container that will make your life easy. To enter it just type:
This will bring you in a temporary container that has our Switchboard CLI tool available and is ready to send your request to be allow to contribute to the Switchboard network.
To send your request simply run:
Save the output of the command above and follow the link provided to send your request. Our operators will receive your request and provide you permission to be included in the queue as soon as possible.
You can check if you Oracle account got included in the queue by checking the output of the following command:
and searching for your Oracle public key in the list of allowed Oracles.
Once done with the steps above, you can leave the container by typing exit and will be dropped back to the docker installation directory.
Save values from the output in the file dedicated to devnet or mainnet inside the cfg directory, based on your current setup.
Enable the right Solana cluster network
Now that everything is configured and ready, you need to enable or disable the specific networks you configured, we created a set of steps to enable devnet or mainnet and their counter-parts to disable them:
Disable the network you're not using and enable the one you are using, you can run the same step multiple time if you're unsure whether you already run it or not.
[OPTIONAL] Enable watchtower auto-update mechanism
To make maintenance and regular updates easier for our partners we propose a mechanism based on watchtower this software will monitor our repos automatically for you and pull and deploy newer versions of our Oracle automatically without any intervention on your side.
If you want to enable this feature, please run:
You can always disable it by running step ./71_cfg_disable_watchtower.sh.
If you don't use watchtower, please note that old Oracles that are not up-to-date will be excluded from running tasks in our queues.
Finally start your Oracle!
If everything went well, it's now just a matter of running:
And your own Switchboard on-demand Oracle should be up and running!
You should see Docker Compose run through some output where it downloads the container images and starts them and then drops to background where it will continue execution.
If you want to interact with the Docker compose running your Oracle you can use all the usual Docker and Docker Compose tools or you can use the wrapper script that we created to make your life easier:
This script is just a wrapper that will pass whatever arguments you give it to the Docker Compose configuration that is running your Oracle.
Whenever you want to download the latest Oracle image, just run:
This will download the latest stable image and restart all containers that use it.
If for whatever reasons you want to stop your Oracle and all the related services, you can use the following step:
Which will shut down the Docker Compose environment and all running services.
You can then use step 90 again to start it back up.
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