deploy-dashmasternode

An ansible based Dashpay (Dash Cryptocurrency) Masternode Deployment

This role automates the excellent tutorial provided by @xkcd in the Dash Forum, specifically this thread.

System Wide Masternode setup with systemd and autorestart

This role automatically deploys a DASH masternode or fleet of DASH masternode servers using ansible. Right now this role gets you to the point where The Masternode server is ready for the ProRegtx and is ready for you to notify the network about the existence of the Dash Masternode.

This role is tested on Ubuntu LTS 20.04.

This role creates a dashadmin user that handles all administrative work and a normal dash user. It locks down root SSH access as well as via passwords and only allows access via SSH for the dashadmin user and normal dash user.

access to the dash-cli or any other dash wallet access is available via the dash user.

dashadmin user is only used for administration. dash user is used for everything else. This is to keep the server secure against access attempts against root.

Requirements

• Ansible: pip install ansible
• In the ansible/roles directory: git clone https://github.com/unchainedio/deploy-dashmasternode
• SSH keys: Ansible operates via SSH keys, if you dont have ssh keys installed you will need to generate your own ssh keys. 'ssh-keygen' in your terminal and it will create a new key for you.
• A fresh Ubuntu VPS.
• In your hosts file enter the IP's of the machines

Make sure you can ssh into the machine before running this script

Variables

Variables are located in deploy-dashmasternode/defaults/main.yml.

Users: users in the system, admin user to administer the system and dash_user to install dash

dashadmin_user: dashadmin

dash_user: dash

Required packages to run and install dashcore and dashd

required_packages: [ufw, python, virtualenv, git, unzip, pv, speedtest-cli, python-pip]

location of where dash.conf is expected

dashconf_file_path: /home/{{ dash_user }}/.dashcore/dash.conf

location of where dashcore is installed

dash_core_path: /home/{{ dash_user }}/.dashcore

location of swapfile

swap_file: /var/swapfile

location of dashpay github release

dashpay_release_url: https://github.com/dashpay/dash/releases/download/v0.15.0.0/dashcore-0.15.0.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz

location where dash binaries will be installed

dashpay_install_path: /opt

url for sentinel repository

dashpay_sentinel_url: https://github.com/dashpay/sentinel

path where sentinel should be installed on the dash user remote system

sentinel_install_path: /home/{{ dash_user }}/sentinel

path where ansible will create the bls keys for the Masternode, used to check and backup

bls_keys_path: ~/.blskeys

Dependencies

None.

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This is an example playbook.

NOTE: gather_facts: no is important to have. In building out the server we lockdown the root access to the machine. If you have gather_facts: yes the script will work the very first time and give errors after that, due to the fact that it defaults to using root access which after the first run is locked down with no password or ssh access.

- hosts: masternodes
  gather_facts: no
  roles:
     - deploy-dashmasternode

License

MIT

Author Information

github.com/unchainedio