🐳Docker

Author [godwin]

System Requirements

CPU
OS
RAM
DISK

2 cores+

Ubuntu 24.04

8GB+

>= 128GB

The Rootstock Mainnet archive node has a size of 132GB on September 22nd, 2024

Last updated at: 22nd Sept 2024

Official docs - https://dev.rootstock.io/node-operators/

Pre-Requisites

First, update, upgrade, and clean the system:

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt auto-remove -y
sudo apt install ufw -y

Configure Firewall Settings 

sudo ufw default deny incoming
sudo ufw default allow outgoing

sudo ufw allow 22/tcp
sudo ufw allow 80
sudo ufw allow 443
sudo ufw allow 4444

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

Setup Rootstock Node

Make and switch to the working directory for the Rootstock node

mkdir rootstock && cd rootstock

Create and edit the configuration file:

nano node.conf

Paste the following content into the file You can find all the configuration options here

If you are interested in running the config for other networks, you can find the configs here

blockchain.config.name = "main"

database.dir = /var/lib/rsk/database/mainnet

rpc {
providers : {
    web: {
        cors: "localhost",
        http: {
            enabled: true,
            bind_address = "0.0.0.0",
            hosts = ["localhost"]
            port: 4444,
            }
        ws: {
            enabled: false,
            bind_address: "0.0.0.0",
            port: 4445,
            }
        }
    }

    modules = [
        {
            name: "eth",
            version: "1.0",
            enabled: "true",
        },
        {
            name: "net",
            version: "1.0",
            enabled: "true",
        },
        {
            name: "rpc",
            version: "1.0",
            enabled: "true",
        },
        {
            name: "web3",
            version: "1.0",
            enabled: "true",
        },
        {
            name: "evm",
            version: "1.0",
            enabled: "true"
        },
        {
            name: "sco",
            version: "1.0",
            enabled: "false",
        },
        {
            name: "txpool",
            version: "1.0",
            enabled: "true",
        },
        {
            name: "debug",
            version: "1.0",
            enabled: "false",
        },        
        {
            name: "personal",
            version: "1.0",
            enabled: "true"
        }
    ]
}

Create and edit the docker compose file

nano docker-compose.yml

Paste the content into the compose file.

In this Docker Compose file, we are utilizing the prebuilt Rootstock node image available on dockerhub, where you can also find other prebuilt images.

services:
  rsk-node:
    image: rsksmart/rskj:ARROWHEAD-6.3.1
    container_name: rsk-node
    ports:
      - 5050:5050
      - 4444:4444
    volumes:
      - rsk-data:/var/lib/rsk/.rsk
      - ./node.conf:/etc/rsk/node.conf
    restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
  rsk-data:  
This section mounts the host's data directory for blockchain storage and the node.conf file for configuration into the container,
volumes:
      - ./data:/var/lib/rsk/.rsk
      - ./node.conf:/etc/rsk/node.conf

Run the node

docker compose up -d

Monitor the node

Use docker logs to monitor the rootstock node. The -f flag ensures you are following the log output.

docker logs -f rsk-node

You should see a response similar to this once your node starts syncing

2024-09-16-21:23:20.0646 INFO [blockchain] [message handler] [blockHash=c6225969d4795419027f98269b1c5c0f2a6afc2a0a5f399fcaa607c27a2c484a, peerMsgId=iCvIT12JZvyWvki, peerSID=8dfb1d6268b4b13, blockHeight=1309986]  block: num: [1309986] hash: [c6225969d4795419027f98269b1c5c0f2a6afc2a0a5f399fcaa607c27a2c484a], processed after: [0.005189]seconds, result IMPORTED_BEST
2024-09-16-21:23:20.0676 INFO [blockchain] [message handler] [blockHash=39a7299155cebca0b4f22ddbf49ce1c39f7d230e21aa7061874f2894d43b4847, peerMsgId=g7k643wFWTOWBfZ, peerSID=8dfb1d6268b4b13, blockHeight=1309987]  block: num: [1309987] hash: [39a7299155cebca0b4f22ddbf49ce1c39f7d230e21aa7061874f2894d43b4847], processed after: [0.005022]seconds, result IMPORTED_BEST
2024-09-16-21:23:20.0706 INFO [blockchain] [message handler] [blockHash=9c5b971fb0094e922c5e517f11324e17babed9c14a33e426a5f7984b1701fe37, peerMsgId=akXn9XtqflGiK4y, peerSID=8dfb1d6268b4b13, blockHeight=1309988]  block: num: [1309988] hash: [9c5b971fb0094e922c5e517f11324e17babed9c14a33e426a5f7984b1701fe37], processed after: [0.005072]seconds, result IMPORTED_BEST
2024-09-16-21:23:20.0735 INFO [blockchain] [message handler] [blockHash=53677df4e16affaf09da709a42a288e4df376ee16c97d76f25e862113f59680d, peerMsgId=n5RGPtCFbshskYG, peerSID=8dfb1d6268b4b13, blockHeight=1309989]  block: num: [1309989] hash: [53677df4e16affaf09da709a42a288e4df376ee16c97d76f25e862113f59680d], processed after: [0.004886]seconds, result IMPORTED_BEST

Query the node

To get the web3 client version

curl http://localhost:4444 -s -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"web3_clientVersion","params":[],"id":67}'

Output

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":67,"result":"RskJ/6.3.1/Mac OS X/Java1.8/ARROWHEAD-202f1c5"}

To check the block number

curl -X POST http://localhost:4444/ -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"eth_blockNumber","params":[],"id":1}'

Output

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":"0x14144a"}

Attach Geth to the local node

Install Geth

The following command enables the launchpad repository:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum

Then, to install the stable version of go-ethereum:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ethereum

Once geth is installed and running, run the below command to attach geth to rsk node

geth attach http://127.0.0.1:4444

Check if the node is running

Check the blocknumber - the result should match the current rootstock block number

eth.blockNumber

Output

6996674

References

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