🐳Docker

Authors: [ JleopoldA ]

System Requirements

CPU	OS	RAM	DISK
4 Core	Ubuntu 22.04.4	16GB RAM	1.5TB

Blast Archival node has a size of 1.5TB on September 30, 2024.

Blast

To run Blast you need to utilize an L1 node for Blast to interact with. Instructions on how to do so can be found here. https://docs.prylabs.network/docs/install/install-with-script

Official Docs

https://docs.blast.io/about-blast

Pre-Requisites

Update, upgrade, clean the system, and apply firewall management (ufw).

# Update, upgrade and clean system
sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt auto-remove -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

Install Docker & Docker Compose

The following code will install Docker & Docker Compose, both are necessary requirements to run Blast.

# 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 Apt 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 Packages
 sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin
 
 # Verify Docker Installation is Successful
sudo docker run hello-world

# Install Docker-Compose
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-compose-plugin

# Verify Docker-Compose installation by checking the version
docker compose version

# Expected output
Docker Compose version vN.N.N

Create Blast Directory

The command "mkdir blast" will create a directory named "blast" within your current working directory. The second command will alter your current working directory to the newly created "blast" directory.

mkdir blast && cd blast

Clone Blast-IO Deployment Repository

The Blast deployment repository contains the necessary Docker Compose Configurations. We will obtain the Deployment repository while within our "blast" directory. The commands "git clone [e-mail]:blast-io/deployment.git" or "git clone https://github.com/blast-io/deployment.git" will download the repository. The command "cd deployment" will change your current working directory to the deployment directory.

# Download Deployment Repository using SSH
git clone [e-mail]:blast-io/deployment.git
cd deployment

# If you receive errors running "git clone [e-mail]:blast-io/deployment.git"
# You can download it this way instead
git clone https://github.com/blast-io/deployment.git
cd deployment

Create .env file

sudo nano .env

Paste the following into your newly created .env file.

# NETWORK should be mainnet or sepolia
NETWORK={YOUR_NETWORK} # Set to either mainnet or sepolia
GETH_DATA_DIR=blast-get-data # The path where you want to store blockchain data
L1_RPC_URL={YOUR_RPC_ENDPOINT_URL} # L1 node RPC endpoint URL
L1_RPC_KIND={YOUR_RPC_KIND} # Type of RPC provider (alcehmy, infura, any, etc)
OP_NODE_L1_BEACON={YOUR_L1_BEACON_API} # Your L1 Beacon api endpoint

Start Docker Containers

docker compose up -d

This pulls the latest version of the pre-built Docker images and starts the necessary containers.

Query Blast Node

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_blockNumber","params":[],"id":1}' http://localhost:8545

# The response should resemble the following:
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":"0xcab5ab"}

View Docker Logs

docker logs blast-geth -f --tail 100

References

https://docs.blast.io/building/guides/node/basic