IOTA Hornet Node
HORNET is a powerful, community driven IOTA fullnode software written in Go. Compared to the Java node implementation (IRI), this requires considerably less resources with significantly higher performance. HORNET is easy to install, and runs on low-end devices.
Note: if network activity increases significantly, low performance VPSs may struggle to cope with the load and may need to be upgraded. We currently recommend the 2vCPU, 2GB RAM, 60GB SSD droplet.
Software Included
| Package | Version | License |
|---|---|---|
| Docker | Latest | |
| Haproxy | 2.1 | |
| Nginx | 1.15 | |
| Certbot | Latest | |
| Prometheus | Latest (optional via monitoring) | |
| Alertmanager | Latest (optional via monitoring) | |
| Grafana | Latest (optional via monitoring) |
Creating an App using the Control Panel
Click the Deploy to DigitalOcean button to create a Droplet based on this 1-Click App. If you aren’t logged in, this link will prompt you to log in with your DigitalOcean account.
Creating an App using the API
In addition to creating a Droplet from the IOTA Hornet Node 1-Click App using the control panel, you can also use the DigitalOcean API. As an example, to create a 4GB IOTA Hornet Node Droplet in the SFO2 region, you can use the following curl command. You need to either save your API access token) to an environment variable or substitute it in the command below.
curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer '$TOKEN'' -d \
'{"name":"choose_a_name","region":"sfo2","size":"s-2vcpu-4gb","image": "iota-iotahornetnode-18-04"}' \
"https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets"
Getting Started After Deploying IOTA Hornet Node
Brief Instructions:
Once the application server is running, access via SSH.
Upon first login, the playbook installation will start.
An administrative user and password will be prompted for, and a selection of tools to install (e.g. monitoring, firewalls etc).
Note that most of the software has been pre-installed. The installation will mostly upgrade software if required and configure access and firewalls.
Tools Included via the Hornet playbook:
Horc (hornet controller): menu-driven node management tool
nbctl: cli utility to manage neighbors
Testing if the service is running:
Once the installation is complete, run systemctl status hornet. This should be active, if the service is running.