Introduction

Docker Compose implementation of GETH

How to Launch a Full Node with GETH Client

Recommended Hardware

- Fast CPU with 4+ cores
- 16 GB+ RAM
- Fast SSD with at least 700 GB free space in fast sync and 6TB+ in full archive mode
- 25+ MBit/s bandwidth

Network

- 8545  TCP, used by the HTTP based JSON RPC API
- 8546  TCP, used by the WebSocket based JSON RPC API
- 8547  TCP, used by the GraphQL API
- 30303 TCP  and UDP, used by the P2P protocol running the network
- 8551  TCP, Engine API - needed only for eth2 validators

How to Launch Using docker-compose:

• Clone this repository, run:

git clone https://github.com/Sensei-Node/geth-node

• Navigate to geth-node folder:

cd geth-node

• Then run the following docker compose command:

docker-compose up -d 

Verify Node is Syncing

• The following curl command will give you a true statment if the node is still syncing:

curl --location --request POST 'localhost:8545' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-raw '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_syncing","params":[],"id":1}'

• Check docker logs to see the block_height:

docker logs --tail 100 ethereum

Adding Local Node to MetaMask

• If you are running the GETH Node on your local Network, you can add it to your MetaMask changing networks to localhost 8545, if you are running on a VM (Virtual Machine) you can add the IP to your trusted networks, make sure to have 8545 port open.

Resources

• Official Geth client installation
• API docs
• Connect Node to MetaMask

Contributing

• Contributions are welcome. Feel free to suggest improvements!

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