Pre-requisites

A sufficient-sized and secure machine (Physical, VM or in the Cloud) with Ubuntu pre-installed on it
System requirements:
- CPU: min. 2 cores
- RAM: min. 4 GB
- Disk space – > 50GB (blockchain and OS)
- Disk Partitions
  Recommended to create dedicated partition for storing blockchain database (data); sizing to be adjusted according to the size of the actual blockchain.
  
  for other partitions, setup and sizing, follow the best practice for ubuntu installation
- Network – the network should be reliable and fast (high speed connection with low latency), and the machine accessible via public IP
- 2 x 1Gb >= Network adapter (second Network Interface Card (NIC) as a standby or failover interface in case the primary NIC fails. Can also be used for load balancing)
- The following are the port(s) to be opened for incoming traffic or connections:

MANDATORY PORT

TODO: add

OPTIONAL PORTS

TODO: add

Config

You can see example config here

Param1

Param2

...

TODO: add explanation of all config parameters

Taraxa docker image

There are 2 taraxa docker images:

taraxa-builder:latest

Contains all dependencies required for building taraxa-node project, you can create local taraxa-builder image by running this command in root directory:

DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --progress=plain --target builder -t taraxa-builder:latest .

taraxa-node:latest

Contains final taraxad binary + config. All dependencies are linked statically. To create taraxa-node image, run:

DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --progress=plain -t taraxa-node:latest .