Bare Metal with Kubernetes (K3s)
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Initial setup steps
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.
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 verifies if 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.
There are some advisories that we mitigate in code, 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:
You will be prompted if you intend to also run a Guardian. Answer no unless you know what it is 😎.
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.
Install Kubernetes (with k3s) and all needed apps
To proceed, let's start by installing Kubernetes with k3s using the following step:
This will just download and install k3s and start it.
For the following steps, you should only run the ones that apply to your specific Kubernetes setup, so you can read the comments below, the content of the scripts or the output of the scripts:
This step will install SGX and TLS certificate manager dependencies needed to run our Oracle code.
Next you should install our Ingress toolset based on nginx:
This will install nginx with the correct platform setup.
[OPTIONAL] Enable metrics reporting and monitoring
While the following step is optional, we recommend running it as this will send statistics about your Oracle to our systems so that we can keep an eye on anomalies or outliers behaviors and warn you promptly if we detect any and keep our network safe:
[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 removing it via helm.
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.
[OPTIONAL] Secrets management via Infisical
Next is another optional step:
This will install all the needed artifacts and code for our integration with Infisical.
This step is optional and needs to be completed by the data present in your cfg file with all the variables starting with INFISICAL_.
[OPTIONAL] TLS certificate creation test
Another optional step:
This script will create an Ingress that will test your Kubernetes installation, DNS setup and the entire flow.
To verify that it's working, run the script above, give it 3-5 minutes and then visit the DNS record you decided to use for your system.
When done, please 81-test-cert-cleanup.sh to clean up the artifacts that the test created.
Finally start your Oracle!
If everything went well, it's now just a matter of running:
So that the last step will install our Oracle code and run it in your Kubernetes cluster.
From this point onward, you can use the usual Kubernetes tools that you use to work with your cluster.
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