Monero miner

A toy Monero mining setup I've been using as a test load while I experiment with deployment and orchestration options on different compute providers. Basically just something I can leave running while I figure out config, pricing and hardening on whatever platform I'm evaluating.

Initial setup

Terraform

This repository is set up to store Terraform's state in a submodule which it accesses via git clone terraform@terraform:monero-node. To make this work you need to add the hostname or IP address of the server holding that repo to either /etc/hosts or to your ~/.ssh/config. I did the latter:

cat >>~/.ssh/config <<EOF
Host terraform
Hostname (you know it)
ForwardX11 no
ForwardAgent no
Compression no
EOF

Once that's done you can recursively clone the repo:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/gbenson/monero-node.git
cd monero-node

OpenStack client

This part is optional unless you want to use the OpenStack client directly. Create a Python virtual environment:

python3 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate

Upgrade pip, install OpenStack client:

pip install --upgrade pip
pip install python-openstackclient

Usage

Source OpenStack configuration and credentials:

. ~/.config/gbenson/secrets/openstack-openrc.sh

Update infrastructure to match definition:

terraform fmt && terraform plan -out=tfplan
terraform apply tfplan