skynet-webportal/setup-scripts

Skynet Portal Setup Scripts

This directory contains a setup guide and scripts that will install and configure some basic requirements for running a Skynet Portal. The assumption is that we are working with a Debian Buster Minimal system or similar.

Initial Setup

You may want to fork this repository and replace ssh keys in setup-scripts/support/authorized_keys and optionally edit the setup-scripts/support/tmux.conf and setup-scripts/support/bashrc configurations to fit your needs.

Step 0: stack overview

• dockerized services inside docker-compose.yml
  • sia (docker hub): storage provider, heart of the portal setup
  • caddy (docker hub): reverse proxy (similar to nginx) that handles ssl out of a box and acts as a transparent entry point
  • openresty (docker hub): nginx custom build, acts as a cached proxy to siad and exposes all api endpoints
  • health-check: this is a simple service that runs periodically and collects health data about the server (status and response times) and exposes /health-check api endpoint that is deliberately delayed based on the response times of the server so potential load balancer could prioritize servers based on that (we use it with cloudflare)
• siad setup: we use "double siad" setup that has one node solely for download and one for upload to improve performance
  • we use systemd to manage siad service
  • siad is not installed as docker service for improved performance
• discord integration
  • funds-checker: script that checks wallet balance and sends status messages to discord periodically
  • log-checker: script that scans siad logs for critical errors and reports them to discord periodically
• blacklist-skylink: script that can be run locally from a machine that has access to all your skynet portal servers that blacklists provided skylink and prunes nginx cache to ensure it's not available any more (that is a bit much but that's the best we can do right now without paid nginx version) - if you want to use it, make sure to adjust the server addresses

Step 1: setting up server user

1. SSH in a freshly installed Debian machine on a user with sudo access (can be root)
2. apt-get update && apt-get install sudo to make sure sudo is available
3. adduser user to create user called user (creates /home/user directory)
4. usermod -a -G sudo user to add this new user to sudo group
5. Quit the ssh session with exit command

You a can now ssh into your machine as the user user.

Step 2: setting up environment

1. On your local machine: ssh-copy-id user@ip-addr to copy over your ssh key to server
2. On your local machine: ssh user@ip-addr to log in to server as user user
3. You are now logged in as user

Following step will be executed on remote host logged in as a user:

1. sudo apt-get install git to install git
2. git clone https://github.com/NebulousLabs/skynet-webportal
3. run setup scripts in the exact order and provide sudo password when asked (if one of them fails, you can retry just this one before proceeding further)
   1. /home/user/skynet-webportal/setup-scripts/setup-server.sh
   2. /home/user/skynet-webportal/setup-scripts/setup-docker-services.sh
   3. /home/user/skynet-webportal/setup-scripts/setup-health-check-scripts.sh (optional)

Step 3: configuring siad

At this point we have almost everything running, we just need to set up your wallet and allowance:

1. Create new wallet (remember to save the seeds)

   docker exec -it sia siac wallet init

2. Unlock wallet (use seed as password)

   docker exec -it sia siac wallet unlock

3. Generate wallet addresse (save them for later to transfer the funds)

   docker exec -it sia siac wallet address

4. Set up allowance

   docker exec -it sia siac renter setallowance

   1. 10 KS (keep 25 KS in your wallet)
   2. default period
   3. default number of hosts
   4. 8 week renewal time
   5. 500 GB expected storage
   6. 500 GB expected upload
   7. 5 TB expected download
   8. default redundancy
5. Instruct siad to start making 10 contracts per block with many hosts to potentially view the whole network's files

   docker exec -it sia siac renter setallowance --payment-contract-initial-funding 10SC

Step 4: configuring docker services

1. generate and copy sia api token printf ":$(cat /home/user/.sia/apipassword)" | base64
2. edit /home/user/skynet-webportal/.env and configure following environment variables
   • DOMAIN_NAME (optional) is your domain name if you have it
   • EMAIL_ADDRESS (required) is your email address used for communication regarding SSL certification (required)
   • SIA_WALLET_PASSWORD (required) is your wallet password (or seed if you did not set a password)
   • HSD_API_KEY (optional) this is a random security key for an optional handshake integration that gets generated automatically
   • CLOUDFLARE_AUTH_TOKEN (optional) if using cloudflare as dns loadbalancer (need to change it in Caddyfile too)
   • AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID (optional) if using route53 as a dns loadbalancer
   • AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY (optional) if using route53 as a dns loadbalancer
3. if you have a custom domain and you configured it in DOMAIN_NAME, edit /home/user/skynet-webportal/docker/caddy/Caddyfile and uncomment import custom.domain
4. only for siasky.net domain instances: edit /home/user/skynet-webportal/docker/caddy/Caddyfile, uncomment import siasky.net
5. docker-compose up -d to restart the services so they pick up new env variables
6. docker exec caddy caddy reload --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile to reload Caddyfile configuration

Useful Commands

• Accessing siac

  docker exec -it sia siac

• Checking status of siad service

  systemctl --user status siad

• Stopping siad service

  systemctl --user stop siad

• Starting siad service

  systemctl --user start siad

• Restarting siad service

  systemctl --user restart siad

• Restarting caddy gracefully after making changes to Caddyfile

  docker exec caddy caddy reload --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile

• Restarting nginx gracefully after making changes to nginx configs

  docker exec nginx openresty -s reload

• Checking siad service logs (last hour)

  docker logs --since 1h $(docker ps -q --filter "name=^sia$")

• Checking caddy logs (for example in case ssl certificate fails)

  docker logs caddy -f

• Checking nginx logs (nginx handles all communication to siad instances)

  tail -n 50 docker/data/nginx/logs/access.log to follow last 50 lines of access log tail -n 50 docker/data/nginx/logs/error.log to follow last 50 lines of error log