IOTA IRI Fullnode Ansible Playbook

This playbook will install and configure the IOTA full node. In addition:

• Install and configure iota-pm: a GUI to view/manage peers
• Password protected, HTTPS accessible dashboards
• Run all services as systemd controlled processes (unprivileged users)
• Alerting and notifications
• Configure firewalls
• iric configuration tool
• HAProxy for Wallet/API connections
• Optional: Nelson
• Monitoring for IRI + Graphs amazing work of Chris Holliday

For a "click-'n-go" installation see: Getting Started Quickly

For the full tutorial use the Wiki

Screenshots Monitoring

Requirements

A redhat/centos or debian/ubuntu node where you want to have the node running on.

Latest Ansible installation for your distribution (http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/intro_installation.html)

Playbook was tested with:

• Ansible>=2.4
• Ubuntu 18.04
• Ubuntu 17.04
• Ubuntu 16.04
• CentOS>=7.4

Please feel free to contribute.

Configure host

This playbook can be installed locally or on a remote host (given you have SSH access to it)

If you want to install to a remote host, edit the inventory and set the name and IP accordingly (i.e. hostname FQDN)

Configure options

In groups_vars/all/*.yml you will find files with some configuration options and comments.

Important value to edit is the iotapm_nginx_password in the group_vars/all/iotapm.yml. Set a strong password.

To edit the password and/or add more users refer to the wiki link up in this README doc.

Edit other options if you want to tweak anything (most importantly check the latest IRI version and edit accordingly).

Run playbook

Simply run:

ansible-playbook -i inventory -v site.yml

Installing Specific Roles

You can install a specific role (or skip) by using:

--tags=first-role-name,second-role-name or --skip-tags=rolename,etc

For example, to skip the monitoring role:

ansible-playbook -i inventory -v site.yml --skip-tags=monitoring_role

To find available roles run grep "\- .*_role$" roles/*/tasks/main.yml:

# grep "\- .*_role$" roles/*/tasks/main.yml
roles/iotapm/tasks/main.yml:    - iotapm_role
roles/iri/tasks/main.yml:    - iri_role
roles/monitoring/tasks/main.yml:    - monitoring_role

Note that some roles are dependant on other roles having been installed. For example, the monitoring_role depends on iri_role.

Specifying tags or skipping tags is mostly handy when upgrading a role.

Reinstall or Reconfigure

To re-install iri (this will remove any existing database) or for example to install a different version after having edited the version in the groups_vars/all/*.yml file:

First, if you already have iri running:

sudo systemctl stop iri

Then:

ansible-playbook -i inventory -v site.yml -e "remove_iri_workdir=1"

Overwrite/Update Configuration Files

Configuration Files

By default the playbook will not overwrite essential configuration files which have already been deployed, as this might discard values configured by the user.

In order to overwrite or update configuration files, the extra environment variable "overwrite=true" can be set i.e. -e overwrite=true when running the playbook.

This will backup existing configuration files with a timestamp.

Variable Files

The playbook has a directory group_vars/all/ with a collection of variable files. These are used by the playbook. Variables can be overriden using the -e somevar=someval argument when running the playbook.

Another way to override the variables declared in group_vars/all/ files is to create a new "override" file. Since the variable files are processed alphabetically, you can create a file called group_vars/all/zzz-override.yml and any variable declared in it will override any previously declared variable.