Random Beacons are at the heart of the network. They are needed to randomly select providers to create a new keep. Providers need to stake KEEP tokens, create a node and maintain it to be part of the
Random Beacons are at the heart of the network. They are needed to randomly select providers to create a new keep. Providers need to stake KEEP tokens, create a node and maintain it to be part of the network and earn fees.
Run a Random Beacon
The original article from Keep to run this node.
Run Random Beacon
Deployment
Cloud deployment - Vultr
This article is a step-by-step tutorial to set-up a random beacon node in TestNet (Ropsten) with a deployment in the cloud with Vultr. This is the tutorial we used to set-up our own testnet node! No previous knowledge needed, give it a go ;) What you will need (explained in the article):
ETH and KEEP faucet tokens
an Infura account
an SSH client
a wallet (MetaMask)
How to set up and run Random Beacon node. Step by step guide for beginners
Medium
Cloud deployment - Google
Video to learn how to run the Random Beacon node:
In this step-by-step tutorial you can learn how to launch both nodes (BEACON and ECSDA) at once on one vps.
https://youtu.be/WhqkOwmQIoo
youtu.be
Cloud deployment - Hetzner
Installation guide with translations in Indonesian and Russian!
Installation guide
KEEP nodes
Cloud deployment - DigitalOcean
A beginners quick start guide to staking on the Keep Network testnet using DigitalOcean.
Medium
Rasberry Pi cluster
🏆 This project won the play for keep award!
Wondering how you can run a bare metal Raspbery Pi cluster? Yes, find below a step-by-step tutorial.
Staking KEEP on a Raspberry Pi cluster with Ansible, Kubernetes (k3s), GlusterFS and more
Medium
GitHub - syuan100/keep-pi-cluster: Redundant bare metal deployment of KEEP staking nodes using Ansible, Kubernetes, GlusterFS, and more
GitHub
Local deployment
This article is a step-by-step tutorial to set-up a random beacon node in TestNet (Ropsten) with a local deployment. What you will need (explained in the article):
ETH and KEEP faucet tokens
an Infura account
an SSH client
a wallet (MetaMask)
Run a KEEP network Testnet node
Medium
This nice article is also well detailed for absolute beginners:
The absolute beginner’s guide to Playing for Keeps
Medium
Helm Charts
"These charts provide a simple way to deploy KEEP Network clients into Kubernetes and make for easier and simplier upgrade processes". Look at the keep-client for the Beacon chain client.
Below you will find a step-by-step guide, and its corresponding code in git, to set up the monitoring on a Keep Random Beacon node using Grafana, Prometheus and Loki.
Keep Random Beacon Node Monitoring | Grafana, Prometheus and Loki