SiaCDN is a high-quality hosted Skynet node.

This repository is the complete set of scripts that is used to run this high-quality hosted Skynet node.

This repository can be used to easily deploy a Skynet node of your own on Google Kubernetes Engine. Here's how:

1. Fork this repo on GitHub. It'll just take a second - I'll wait!
2. Navigate to your fork and continue reading this README there.
3. Clone your fork of the repo and make the following configuration changes, or do it using GitHub's built-in editor.

1. Change the value in kube/siacdn-certificate-toplevel.yaml to match your domain name (line 7)
2. Change the value in kube/siacdn-certificate-www.yaml to match your domain name, keeping the www (line 7)
3. Ensure that these changes are pushed to your clone of this repo.

1. You should have Docker installed on your local machine.
2. You should have a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster, running, and have kubectl authenticated to connect to it. (gcloud container clusters create siacdn && gcloud container clusters get-credentials siacdn)
3. You should have a reserved external IP address named siacdn-ip-address (gcloud compute addresses create siacdn-ip-address --global)
4. Create two A records in your DNS that point to this reserved external IP address - one with a www prefix and another without.

1. Clone your fork of this repository and cd to the directory.
2. Create the kubernetes resources from the local kube dir.

cd siacdn
kubectl create -f kube/

1. Use kubectl to determine the pod where Sia is running:

kubectl get pods -l app=siacdn -o name

2. Use the output of that to run siac commands on the running sia node:

NOTE: In the following, siacdn-deployment-567cda4ea9-wx2sr is the output of #1, without pod/

kubectl exec -it siacdn-deployment-567cda4ea9-wx2sr -c viewnode -- siac

3. Run siac wallet init and wait for consensus, checking using plain siac command.

kubectl exec -it siacdn-deployment-567cda4ea9-wx2sr -c viewnode -- siac wallet init
kubectl exec -it siacdn-deployment-567cda4ea9-wx2sr -c viewnode -- siac

4. Run siac wallet address to get an address, and send that address some siacoins, probably 25K or so.

kubectl exec -it siacdn-deployment-567cda4ea9-wx2sr -c viewnode -- siac wallet address

5. Run siac renter setallowance twice, with parameters detailed by Nebulous at the following link, but use your judgement and adjust limits to your setup:

https://github.com/NebulousLabs/skynet-webportal/tree/master/setup-scripts#viewnode-setup

kubectl exec -it siacdn-deployment-567cda4ea9-wx2sr -c viewnode -- siac renter setallowance
kubectl exec -it siacdn-deployment-567cda4ea9-wx2sr -c viewnode -- siac renter setallowance --payment-contract-initial-price 10SC