🐳Docker

Authors: [Vince | Nodeify]

System Requirements

CPU
OS
RAM
DISK

4c/8T

Ubuntu 22.04

>= 16GB

>= 8TB

🔴 Optimism

Official Docs https://community.optimism.io/docs/developers/bedrock/node-operator-guide/#

Pre-requisites

Update, upgrade, and clean the system, and then firewall management (ufw), Docker, and the Git version control system.

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt auto-remove -y
sudo apt install docker.io docker-compose git ufw -y

Set explicit default UFW rules

sudo ufw default deny incoming
sudo ufw default allow outgoing

Allow SSH, HTTP and HTTPS

sudo ufw allow 22/tcp
sudo ufw allow 80
sudo ufw allow 443

Get the IP address of the host machine, you can use the following command in a terminal or command prompt

Set an A record for a domain, you need to access the domain's DNS settings and create an A record that points to the IP address of the host machine. This configuration allows users to reach your domain by resolving the domain name to the specific IP address associated with your host machine.

Create base directory

The first command, mkdir optimism, will create a new directory named optimism in the current location. The second command, cd optimism, will change your current working directory to the newly created base directory. Now you are inside the base directory and can start storing docker-compose and related files in it.

Create .env file

Paste the following into the file.

ctrl + x and y to save file

Make scripts directory

Download all the helper scripts into scripts directory

Make Scripts Executable

Create docker-compose.yml

Paste the following into the docker-compose.yml

ctrl + x and y to save file

Run Optimism Node

Monitor Logs

Use docker logs to monitor your geth and op nodes. The -f flag ensures you are following the log output

Test Optimism RPC 🧪

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