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Validator runner

Runner is a helper container that launches all the necessary services for a validator to run.

Usage

  1. Get a linux host, recommended:
    1. 8GB RAM
    2. 4x2.3GHz CPU
    3. 60GB SSD
    4. (No GPU is used by validators)
  2. install docker and docker-compose, e.g. apt-get install -y docker.io docker-compose (has been tested on docker 24.0.5 and docker-compose 1.29.2).
  3. choose a directory on your host to save two text files, e.g /home/josephus/compute_horde_validator, contents coming in following points
  4. save the following contents as docker-compose.yml, e.g. /home/josephus/compute_horde_validator/docker-compose.yml
version: '3.7'

services:
    
  validator-runner:
    image: backenddevelopersltd/compute-horde-validator-runner:v0-latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
      - "$HOME/.bittensor/wallets:/root/.bittensor/wallets"
      - ./.env:/root/validator/.env
    labels:
      - "com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true"

  watchtower:
    image: containrrr/watchtower:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
    command: --interval 60 --cleanup --label-enable
  1. save the following contents as .env, e.g. /home/josephus/compute_horde_validator/.env (read the comments, they contain hints as to what values to give to these variables):
# generate one for yourself, e.g. `python3 -c 'import random; import string; print("".join(random.SystemRandom().choice(string.ascii_letters + string.digits) for _ in range(50)))'`
SECRET_KEY=
# generate one for yourself, e.g. `python3 -c 'import random; import string; print("".join(random.SystemRandom().choice(string.ascii_letters + string.digits) for _ in range(15)))'`
# don't change this starting the validator for the first time
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=
BITTENSOR_NETUID=12
# network specification has the same syntax as `btcli --subtensor.network ... `
# so you can use "finney", "test", "186.12.13.150:9944" etc. but if you want to use a subtensor run on the same host,
# then due to docker networking, use the example provided below
BITTENSOR_NETWORK=172.17.0.1:9944
BITTENSOR_WALLET_NAME=validator
BITTENSOR_WALLET_HOTKEY_NAME=default
HOST_WALLET_DIR=/home/josephus/.bittensor/wallets
  1. run docker-compose up -d in the directory containing your docker-compose.yml, e.g. /home/josephus/compute_horde_validator/
  2. done. complete.

Updating config

If you make any changes to .env, be it changing values, adding new ones or removing them, you need to stop all services and star them again:

docker-compose down
docker-compose up -d

you may see an error like:

ERROR: error while removing network: network ... has active endpoints

it is inconsequential, and we will remove it soon.

How it works

The backenddevelopersltd/compute-horde-validator-runner docker image contains a docker-compose.yml file with all the necessary services to run a validator. A watchtower container that will automatically apply updates for containers.

backenddevelopersltd/compute-horde-validator-runner
|__postgres
|__redis
|__worker
|__...
|__watchtower

The watchtower container may update:

  1. core services in docker-compose.yml (like worker), and
  2. backenddevelopersltd/compute-horde-validator-runner container itself, which will automatically update ALL the other containers.