Aptos Node Operator Ansible Scripts

Design Philosophy

1. Cover scenarios with multiple playbooks (initial setup, node upgrade, validator migration, etc)
2. Support both testnet and mainnet
3. Support both validator and validator fullnode
4. Will support public fullnode at a later date

TL/DR

Once all set, you run one playbook to do a task, such as:

ansible-playbook main.yml -e "target=validator_mainnet"

The target can be:

• validator_mainnet
• fullnode_mainnet
• validator_testnet
• fullnode_testnet

Set up your own inventory file

First create your own inventory file by copying the sample one. Then you customize the file with your own.

cp inventory.sample.yaml inventory.yaml

Playbooks

Playbook	Description
main.yml	Set up a new node
main_upgrade.yml	Upgrade the node version and restart service

Limitation

These playbooks do not touch any key files. We already do it manually. We think you should too.

Additional Ideas for future implementation

Node	Validator	Validator Fullnode	Public Fullnode
P2P port	6180 Open to all, 6181 Open to vfn	None open	6182 Open to all
Prometheus port 9101	Open to monitor server	Open to monitor server	Open to monitor server
REST PORT 8080	Close	Close	Open or reverse proxy to 80/443