Hardware Requirements

• On AWS, c5.large (2vCPU, 4GB RAM)
• 300GB SSD
• 1GB bandwidth

Software Requirements

• We’ll be setting this up on Ubuntu 20.04
• Expected ports: TCP 6182 for full node communication, TCP 9101 for health related metrics, TCP 80/8080 for REST API access

Aptos VFN

Install Docker

sudo apt-get remove docker docker-engine docker.io containerd runc
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install \\
    ca-certificates \\
    curl \\
    gnupg \\
    lsb-release

sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL <https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg> | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg

echo \\
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] <https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu> \\
  $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose-plugin

Docker config files

# Download these files
wget <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aptos-labs/aptos-core/main/docker/compose/aptos-node/docker-compose-fullnode.yaml>

wget <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aptos-labs/aptos-core/main/docker/compose/aptos-node/fullnode.yaml>

Edit fullnode.yaml to update <Validator IP Address>.

Download validator-full-node-identity.yaml, genesis.blob and waypoint.txt from your validator node to the fullnode.

Start the node