Cardano Yourself

This is work in progress (under heavy construction). Please feel free to participate.

Goal:

Build a setup of containers for all flavours (k8s, docker, ....) so that you can host and build it where every you want and to start staking (when released).

Make it as easy as possible for everybody to participate and setup Cardano on their own machines.

Warning:

This is just to help people get started. This has not been tested in production. Only use this if you really know how to secure your environment and your application.

Also only invest what you can afford to lose.

Sneak Peek:

Containers

The containers are prepared in such a way, that they can be run on their own.

Cardano SL (WIP)

Usage

ToDos

• tests
• optimise build

Daedalus Wallet (WIP)

The container is using a headless VNC environment. This means you can run the container somewhere and connect to it using VNC. The possibility of accessing the container through your browser is possible using noVNC

Daedalus gets installed on top of a modified version of ConSol/docker-headless-vnc-container.

Each Docker image is installed with the following components:

• Desktop environment Xfce4
• VNC-Server (default VNC port 5901)
• noVNC - HTML5 VNC client (default http port 6901)

Usage

Run command with mapping to local port 5901 (vnc protocol) and 6901 (vnc web access). Default password is vncpassword, but make sure you select your own

docker run -d -p 5901:5901 -p 6901:6901 -e VNC_PW=vncpassword khwhahn/daedalus

Change the default user and group within a container to your own with adding --user $(id -u):$(id -g):

docker run -d -p 5901:5901 -p 6901:6901 --user $(id -u):$(id -g) khwhahn/daedalus

If you want to get into the container use interactive mode -it and bash

docker run -it -p 5901:5901 -p 6901:6901 khwhahn/daedalus bash

Build an image from scratch:

docker build -t ImageName ./daedalus

=> connect via VNC viewer localhost:5901, default password: vncpassword

=> connect via noVNC HTML5 client: http://localhost:6901/?password=vncpassword

ToDos

• Clean up docker build from useless packages
• optimise and reduce build
• improve default security
• tests
• Add startup shortcuts to desktop

Monitoring App (custom app for network stats etc) (Not started yet)

Run a little interactive app to show real time statistics for the cardano network.

Kubernetes (k8s) (WIP):

In the k8s folder are the .yaml definitions of setting up the containers.

Usage

• locally via minikube just kubectl apply -f ./k8s/ (needs working)

ToDos

• daedalus container crashes - fix
• bug: doesn't work with minikube

Docker Compose (WIP)

Usage

ToDos

• finish definitions as not working

Cloud Platforms

In the folder cloud-platforms are the setup scripts and/or guides.

Google Cloud Engines (WIP)

in the google-cloud directory you will find the build script (and cleanup script) to create a kubernetes cluster to run cardano.

Usage

ToDos

• finish build script

AWS (WIP)

Not started yet

Help Wanted

I'm looking for some help to maintain and improve this project. Please feel free to PM me. Best to reach me via Twitter

Please have a look at the issues.

Thanks

Thanks to IOHK and the whole Cardano team for setting new standards within the crypto space!

Say thanks by sending some $ADA

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