Chainflip Helm Charts

The official collection of Helm charts maintained by Chainflip Labs and the Chainflip community.

Usage

node

First add the Chainflip Helm repository:

helm repo add chainflip https://chainflip-io.github.io/chainflip-helm-charts

Set up your values.yaml like so:

network:
  chain:
    name: "perseverance"
    chainspecUrl: "https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/repo.chainflip.io/chainspecs/perseverance.chainspec.json"
  bootnodes:
    - /ip4/167.99.129.29/tcp/30333/p2p/12D3KooWPFZo5JzqiWASDSrAtbyKgW2kw4Rb5FruE29PAhJ1u4xL
common:
  keys:
    generateKeysOnStart: true
engine:
  settings:
    btc:
      http_endpoint: http://a108a82b574a640359e360cf66afd45d-424380952.eu-central-1.elb.amazonaws.com
      basic_auth_user: flip
      basic_auth_password: flip
    dot:
      http_endpoint: https://pdot-rpc.chainflip.xyz:443
      ws_endpoint: wss://pdot-rpc.chainflip.xyz:443
    eth:
      http_endpoint: <YOUR_http_endpoint>
      ws_endpoint: <YOUR_ws_endpoint>
    node_p2p:
      ip_address: <YOUR_IP_ADDRESS> # pick a ClusterIP for the service

Then install the chart:

helm install validator chainflip/node -f values.yaml --namespace chainflip

The helm chart will generate fresh keys for you on the first start, such that they never live anywhere but inside your node.

Check that the pods are running:

kubectl get pods --namespace chainflip
NAME                                       READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
validator-chainflip-cli-776765bb4d-nmqp4   1/1     Running   0          1m
validator-chainflip-engine-0               1/1     Running   0          1m
validator-chainflip-node-0                 1/1     Running   0          1m

Check the logs of the engine to find the public key of your node;

kubectl logs validator-chainflip-engine-0 --namespace chainflip
{"timestamp":"2023-08-10T12:39:50.017852Z","level":"WARN","fields":{"message":"Your Chainflip account cFK1ay7YMLjQ6Zg25bm7Hg46SKJYw3EuQQKgM8Uvv5KhAaBvf is not funded. Note, it may take some time for your funds to be detected. WAITING for your account to be funded at block: 0xfdcd…5099"},"target":"chainflip_engine::state_chain_observer::client::extrinsic_api::signed"}

In this case, the public key is cFK1ay7YMLjQ6Zg25bm7Hg46SKJYw3EuQQKgM8Uvv5KhAaBvf.

Funding your node

Head to https://auctions-perseverance.chainflip.io/nodes

Click "Add Node", and fund your account with tFLIP. If you need tFLIP, head to our Discord channel.

Run the chainflip-cli commands

As part of the chart, we deploy the chainflip-cli. You can disable it later by changing your value.yaml file to:

cli:
  enabled: false

Exec into the running pod, then run all the chainflip-cli commands to get set up as a validator:

kubectl exec -it validator-chainflip-cli-776765bb4d-nmqp4 -- /bin/bash

chainflip-cli register-account-role Validator 

chainflip-cli start-bidding 

chainflip-cli rotate