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🐳 Docker

System Requirements

CPU	OS	RAM	DISK
8 Cores (Fastest per core speed)	Debian 12/Ubuntu 22.04	16 GB	2TB+ (SSD or NVME preffered)

{% hint style="info" %} Moonriver tracing node has a size of 1.8TB on January 28, 2025 {% endhint %}

Run a tracing node

{% hint style="success" %} Geth's debug and txpool APIs and OpenEthereum's trace module provide non-standard RPC methods for getting a deeper insight into transaction processing. Supporting these RPC methods is important because many projects, such as The Graph, rely on them to index blockchain data.

To use the supported RPC methods, you need to run a tracing node. This guide covers the steps on how to setup and sync a tracing node on Moonbeam using Docker. {% endhint %}

Pre-Requisties

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y

sudo apt install -y wget curl screen git ufw

Setting up Firewall

sudo ufw default deny incoming
sudo ufw default allow outgoing

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

Enable Firewall

sudo ufw enable

Install Docker

Run this command to remove any conflicting docker

for pkg in docker.io docker-doc docker-compose docker-compose-v2 podman-docker containerd runc; do sudo apt-get remove $pkg; done

Add Docker's official GPG key:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc

Add the repository to ppt sources:

echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
  
sudo apt-get update

Install docker

sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

# Test docker is working
sudo docker run hello-world

#Install docker compose

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-compose-plugin

# Test the docker version
docker compose version

Setting up a domain name to access RPC

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

curl ifconfig.me

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.

{% embed url="https://youtu.be/QcNBLSSn8Vg" %}

Create Moonriver directory

The first command, mkdir moonriver, will create a new directory named moonriver in the current location. The second command, cd moonriver, 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.

mkdir moonriver && cd moonriver

Create .env file

sudo nano .env

Paste the following into the file.

EMAIL={YOUR_EMAIL} #Your email to receive SSL renewal emails
DOMAIN={YOUR_DOMAIN} #Domain should be something like rpc.mywebsite.com, e.g. mooonriver.infradao.org
WHITELIST={YOUR_REMOTE_MACHINE_IP} #the server's IP itself and comma separated list of IP's allowed to connect to RPC (e.g. Indexer)

{% hint style="info" %} Ctrl + x and y to save file {% endhint %}

Make Database directory and set necessary permissions

mkdir /var/lib/moonriver-data/

sudo chown -R $(id -u):$(id -g) /var/lib/moonriver-data

Create a directory for WASM overrides:

mkdir /var/lib/moonriver-data/moonriver

sudo chown -R $(id -u):$(id -g) /var/lib/moonriver-data/moonriver

Create docker-compose.yml

{% hint style="info" %} Instead of the standard moonbeamfoundation/moonbeam docker image, you will use the moonbeamfoundation/moonbeam-tracing image.

The latest supported version can be found on the Docker Hub for the moonbeam-tracing image from these repos: https://hub.docker.com/r/moonbeamfoundation/moonbeam-tracing/tags {% endhint %}

Create and paste the following into the docker-compose.yml

sudo nano docker-compose.yml

{% hint style="warning" %} Note that you have to:

Replace INSERT_YOUR_NODE_NAME in two different places. This name can be whatever you want it to be named. For InfraDAO, you can use the name of the server
Replace INSERT_RAM_IN_MB for 50% of the actual RAM your server has. For example, for 32 GB RAM, the value must be set to 16000. The minimum value is 2000, but it is below the recommended specs
For an overview of the flags used in the following start-up commands, plus additional commonly used flags, please refer to the Flags page of our documentation {% endhint %}

version: '3.9'


networks:
  monitor-net:
    driver: bridge
  
volumes:
  traefik_letsencrypt: {}
  moonriver-data: {}

services:
  traefik:
    image: traefik:latest
    container_name: traefik
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "443:443"
    networks:
      - monitor-net
    command:
      - "--api=true"
      - "--api.insecure=true"
      - "--api.dashboard=true"
      - "--log.level=DEBUG"
      - "--providers.docker=true"
      - "--providers.docker.exposedbydefault=false"
      - "--entrypoints.websecure.address=:443"
      - "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.tlschallenge=true"
      - "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.email=${EMAIL}"
      - "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.storage=/letsencrypt/acme.json"
    volumes:
      - "traefik_letsencrypt:/letsencrypt"
      - "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro"
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.middlewares.moonriver-ipallowlist.ipallowlist.sourcerange=${WHITELIST}"

  moonriver:
    image: moonbeamfoundation/moonbeam-tracing:v0.42.1-3401-latest
    user: root
    container_name: moonriver
    volumes:
      - "/var/lib/moonriver-data:/data"
    restart: unless-stopped
    command:
      - --base-path=/data
      - --chain=moonriver
      - --name="babayaga"
      - --rpc-port=9944
      - --rpc-cors=all
      - --unsafe-rpc-external
      - --state-pruning=archive
      - --trie-cache-size=1073741824
      - --db-cache=64000
      - --ethapi=debug,trace,txpool
      - --wasm-runtime-overrides=/moonriver/moonriver-substitutes-tracing
      - --runtime-cache-size=64
      - --
      - --name="babayaga (Embedded Relay)"
    expose:
      - 9944 # rpc + ws parachain
      - 9945 # rpc + ws relay chain
      - 30333 # p2p parachain
      - 30334 # p2p relay chain
      - 9615 # prometheus parachain
      - 9616 # prometheus relay chain
    ports:
      - "9944:9944" # rpc + ws parachain
      - "9945:9945" # rpc + ws relay chain
      - "30333:30333"
      - "30334:30334"
    networks:
      - monitor-net
    labels:
    - "traefik.enable=true"
    - "traefik.http.routers.moonriver.middlewares=moonbeam-ipallowlist"
    - "traefik.http.routers.moonriver.rule=Host(`$DOMAIN`)"
    - "traefik.http.routers.moonriver.entrypoints=websecure"
    - "traefik.http.routers.moonriver.tls.certresolver=myresolver"
    - "traefik.http.services.moonriver.loadbalancer.server.port=9944"

Monitor logs for errors

docker logs moonriver -f --tail 100

The expected output after successful launch should look like this:

2025-01-26 11:58:08 [🌗] Found wasm override. version=moonriver-3102 (moonriver-0.tx2.au3) file=/moonbeam/moonriver-substitutes-tracing/moonriver-runtime-3102-substitute-tracing.wasm
2025-01-26 11:58:09 [🌗] Found wasm override. version=moonriver-1002 (moonriver-0.tx2.au3) file=/moonbeam/moonriver-substitutes-tracing/moonriver-runtime-1002-substitute-tracing.wasm
2025-01-26 11:58:09 [Relaychain] 🔨 Initializing Genesis block/state (state: 0xb000…ef6b, header-hash: 0xb0a8…dafe)    
2025-01-26 11:58:09 [Relaychain] 👴 Loading GRANDPA authority set from genesis on what appears to be first startup.    
2025-01-26 11:58:09 [Relaychain] 👶 Creating empty BABE epoch changes on what appears to be first startup.    
2025-01-26 11:58:09 [Relaychain] 🏷  Local node identity is: 12D3KooWNcthaQ9c8SByj2A5uJdtPvU5bJaGNJwVzGDDkdNkn9UW    
2025-01-26 11:58:09 [Relaychain] Running libp2p network backend    
2025-01-26 11:58:09 [Relaychain] 💻 Operating system: linux    
2025-01-26 11:58:09 [Relaychain] 💻 CPU architecture: x86_64    
2025-01-26 11:58:09 [Relaychain] 💻 Target environment: gnu

2025-01-28 21:21:49 [🌗] ⚙️  Syncing 175.0 bps, target=#10068541 (38 peers), best: #9577251 (0x28f7…734e), finalized #3716815 (0x28cc…7e57), ⬇ 3.5MiB/s ⬆ 0.5kiB/s    
2025-01-28 21:21:50 [Relaychain] ⚙️  Syncing 44.0 bps, target=#26848175 (41 peers), best: #16826836 (0x96a2…eabe), finalized #16826616 (0xba2c…df4e), ⬇ 1.6MiB/s ⬆ 140.9kiB/s    
2025-01-28 21:21:54 [🌗] ⚙️  Syncing 214.8 bps, target=#10068541 (38 peers), best: #9578325 (0xfe6c…a27c), finalized #3716959 (0xff38…fd86), ⬇ 4.0MiB/s ⬆ 1.6kiB/s    
2025-01-28 21:21:55 [Relaychain] ⚙️  Syncing 36.6 bps, target=#26848176 (41 peers), best: #16827019 (0x205c…f14d), finalized #16826912 (0x05d9…fbde), ⬇ 1.1MiB/s ⬆ 110.8kiB/s    
2025-01-28 21:21:59 [🌗] ⚙️  Syncing 140.6 bps, target=#10065658 (39 peers), best: #9579028 (0xc181…c7a0), finalized #3716959 (0xff38…fd86), ⬇ 2.7MiB/s ⬆ 1.1kiB/s    
2025-01-28 21:22:00 [Relaychain] ⚙️  Syncing 43.4 bps, target=#26848176 (41 peers), best: #16827236 (0xb843…e9bd), finalized #16826912 (0x05d9…fbde), ⬇ 1.8MiB/s ⬆ 215.0kiB/s

Test Moonriver RPC

You can call the JSON-RPC API methods to confirm the node is running. For example, call eth_syncing to return the synchronization status. It will return the starting, current, and highest block, or false if not synchronizing (or if the head of the chain has been reached)

Replace https://{YOUR_DOMAIN} with actual domain name or host ip:

curl https://{YOUR_DOMAIN} \
        -X POST \
        -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
        -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_syncing","params":[],"id":1}'

Expected out:

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":{"startingBlock":"0x0","currentBlock":"0x920bb1","highestBlock":"0x99a23d","warpChunksAmount":null,"warpChunksProcessed":null},"id":1}

References

Moonbeam Tracing Node Docs: https://docs.moonbeam.network/node-operators/networks/tracing-node/
Moonbeam Full Node Docs: https://docs.moonbeam.network/node-operators/networks/run-a-node/docker/
Moonbeam Tracing Node Docker: https://hub.docker.com/r/moonbeamfoundation/moonbeam-tracing/tags

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🐳 Docker

System Requirements

Run a tracing node

Pre-Requisties

Setting up Firewall

Enable Firewall

Install Docker

Run this command to remove any conflicting docker

Add Docker's official GPG key:

Add the repository to ppt sources:

Install docker

Setting up a domain name to access RPC

Create Moonriver directory

Create .env file

Make Database directory and set necessary permissions

Create a directory for WASM overrides:

Create docker-compose.yml

Monitor logs for errors

Test Moonriver RPC

Expected out:

References

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🐳 Docker

System Requirements

Run a tracing node

Pre-Requisties

Setting up Firewall

Enable Firewall

Install Docker

Run this command to remove any conflicting docker

Add Docker's official GPG key:

Add the repository to ppt sources:

Install docker

Setting up a domain name to access RPC

Create Moonriver directory

Create .env file

Make Database directory and set necessary permissions

Create a directory for WASM overrides:

Create docker-compose.yml

Monitor logs for errors

Test Moonriver RPC

Expected out:

References