Register your GCP Compute with NodeOps Network
Compute comes in all shapes and sizes. Cloud providers such as the Google Cloud Platform are a great way to spin up Compute with little effort.
This guide demonstrates how you can use your GCP-powered Compute and register it with NodeOps Network.
GCP hands out credits to new users. This means that anyone can provide Compute and earn gNODE in the NodeOps Network!
Prerequisites
- Gmail account
- Wallet
- GCP credits or billing to support a VM of the minimum requirements
Requirements
Apply storage in the correct ratio to the number of vCPUs provided to a mimimum:
Comply with the minimum hardware and port requirements:
- CPUs or vCPUs: ≥2
- GB RAM: ≥4
- SSD storage: ≥80GB NVMe Storage
- Network bandwidth: ≥1Gbps unlimited
- Uptime: ≥ 99%
- OS: Debian (12+) or Ubuntu (22.04+) installation with Linux kernel 6.0+, updated with the latest security patches
- Allow traffic on ports:
- UDP 8472
- TCP 10250
- UDP 51820
- UDP 51821
- Run the Protocol at root
- Run additional workloads
- Have third-party applications or monitoring agents installed
- Enable SWAP
- Be exposed to intervention with the workload or machines
NodeOps Network's integration must be run directly on a machine at root:
- You can't run it in Docker
- Don't run it on a homelab
Step 1. Prepare the network rules
1.1 Sign up or log in to your Google Cloud account and create a new project.
1.2 Navigate to Firewall policies and click Create firewall policy.
1.3 Name the policy and give it a useful description, click Create.
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1.4 Click Create Firewall rule.
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1.5 Set the following and click Save.
- Priority, if you are new to this, follow our example of 100
- Leave other properties as default
- Scroll down to Source filters and set the IPV4 to 0.0.0.0/0
- [Optionally] restrict the traffic to the following ports:
- UDP: 8472, 51820, 51821
- TCP: 10250
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Setting IPV4 ranges to 0.0.0.0/0 allows all inbound and outbound traffic, which means anyone can attempt to access your services, potentially leading to unauthorized access. Specifying the ports helps to restrict the allowed traffic to only the services or Protocols that use these ports. Unless you are experienced setting up firewall rules, we do NOT recommend using this GCP project for any critical purpose as, without further configuration, this network rule will apply to all Compute instances you create in this VPC network (Virtual Private Cloud).
Step 2. Create the Compute
2.1 Navigate to Compute Engine.
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2.2 Navigate to VM instances and click +Create Instance.
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2.3 From Machine configuration, select for example, E2.
Setup a machine to meet the minimum requirements.
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2.4 Click Change and add storage to minimum requirements.
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2.5 Configure firewalls to allow HTTP/HTTPS.
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2.6 Click Create
Step 3. Register on NodeOps Marketplace
3a. Register a as a provider
To register as a provider, follow the Get Started guides:
3b. Register a machine
- Logged in to the Cloud Marketplace > Compute > + Farm Compute.
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- Select Add My Own Machine > Continue > Determine how many machines > Continue.
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- Sign the 2 transaction requests in your wallet.
Congratulations, the Protocol has registered your Machine and provided it with a unique identifier.
- Copy the setup code: from the All or the Pending tab, click Setup > Copy.
Refresh the page if your Machine doesn't appear in the tab.
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Step 4. Connect NodeOps Network to your GCP Compute
4.1 Add sudo to your command to allow NodeOps Network read and write access to your GCP machine.
curl -L https://get.atlasnetwork.dev | sh -s - 9zvmdvJ****SECRET*****w9PHZwP
becomes
sudo curl -L https://get.atlasnetwork.dev | sudo sh -s - 9zvmdvJ****SECRET*****w9PHZwP
4.2 From the GCP dashboard, navigate to VM instances, click SSH and Authorize to SSH-in-browser connect to your VM.
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4.3 Paste your edited code snippet in the terminal provided and press Enter on your keyboard to run.
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Step 5. Activate your machine on NodeOps Network
5.1 From the NodeOps Network dashboard, find your GCP machine in the "AWAITING-STAKE" state.
5.2 Continue by clicking "Stake."
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5.3 Confirm the transaction in your wallet.
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5.4 Your Machine's state changes to "CONFIGURING" and then to "ACTIVE."
Congratulations! You're providing decentralized Compute orchestrated by NodeOps Network's Protocol on Arbitrum.
Troubleshooting
Q. Can I check why my machine is not transitioning to active state? A. Yes. From the machine terminal, and run the following command to check if you're facing any issue or if you haven't met the requirements.
journalctl -fu atlas*