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Guide: How to Set Up a Cardano Stake Pool
PART I - INSTALLATION
Prerequisites
Hardening an Ubuntu Server
Setting Up chrony
Installing Cabal and GHC
Compiling Source Code
PART II - CONFIGURATION
PART III - OPERATION
PART IV - ADMINISTRATION & MAINTENANCE
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A Non-technical Guide for Running a Stakepool
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Prerequisites
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Mandatory skills for stake pool operators
As a stake pool operator for Cardano, you must be competent with the following abilities:
Operational knowledge of how to set up, run and maintain a Cardano node continuously
A commitment to maintain your node 24/7/365
System operation skills including general knowledge of using
Bash scripts
,
systemd services
and
cron jobs
Server administration skills (operational and maintenance)
🧙
Mandatory experience for stake pool operators
Experience of development and operations (DevOps)
Experience on how to
harden
and
secure a server
.
In the
Cardano Developer Portal
, successfully complete the section
Operate a Stake Pool
including the
Stake Pool Course
🛑
Before continuing this guide, you must satisfy the above requirements
.
🚧
🎗
Minimum Stake Pool Hardware Requirements
Two separate servers
: 1 for block producer node, 1 for relay node
One air-gapped offline machine (cold environment)
Operating system
: 64-bit Linux (i.e. Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS)
Processor:
An Intel or AMD x86 processor with two or more cores, at 2GHz or faster
Memory:
12GB of RAM
Storage:
50GB of free storage
Internet:
Broadband internet connection with speeds at least 10 Mbps.
Data Plan
: at least 1GB per hour. 720GB per month.
Power:
Reliable electrical power
ADA balance:
at least 505 ADA for pool deposit and transaction fees
🏋♂
Recommended Future-proof Stake Pool Hardware Setup
Three separate servers
: 1 for block producer node, 2 for relay nodes
One air-gapped offline machine (cold environment)
Operating system
: 64-bit Linux (i.e. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS)
Processor:
4 core or higher CPU
Memory
: 16GB+ of RAM
Storage
: 256GB+ SSD
Internet
: Broadband internet connections with speeds at least 100 Mbps
Data Plan
: Unlimited
Power:
Reliable electrical power with UPS
ADA balance
: more pledge is better, to be determined by
a0
, the pledge influence factor
🔓
Recommended Stake Pool Security
If you need ideas on how to harden your stake pool's nodes, refer to
this guide
.
🛠
Setup Ubuntu
If you need to install
Ubuntu Server
, refer
to this guide.
For instructions on installing
Ubuntu Desktop
, refer
to this guide.
🧱
Rebuilding Nodes
If you are rebuilding or reusing an existing
cardano-node
installation, refer to the section
Resetting an Installation
.
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Mandatory skills for stake pool operators
Mandatory experience for stake pool operators
Minimum Stake Pool Hardware Requirements
Recommended Future-proof Stake Pool Hardware Setup
Recommended Stake Pool Security
Setup Ubuntu
Rebuilding Nodes