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Installs and configures a headless IOTA cryptocurrency node.

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Version information

  • 1.0.0 (latest)
released Dec 7th 2017
This version is compatible with:
  • Puppet Enterprise 2017.2.x, 2017.1.x, 2016.5.x, 2016.4.x
  • Puppet >=4.6.1 <5.0.0
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  • Manual installation
  • Direct download

Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'CraigWatson1987-iota', '1.0.0'
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puppet module install CraigWatson1987-iota --version 1.0.0

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Documentation

CraigWatson1987/iota — version 1.0.0 Dec 7th 2017

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Table of Contents

  1. Overview - What is the puppet-iota module?
  2. Module Description - What does the module do?
  3. Setup - The basics of getting started with puppet-iota
  4. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
  5. Reference - An under-the-hood peek at what the module is doing
  6. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.
  7. Development - Guide for contributing to the module

Overview

This Puppet module downloads, installs and configures a headless IRI full node for use within the IOTA Tangle.

Puppet 3 Support

Please note that the master branch of this module does not support Puppet 3!

On 31st December 2016, support for Puppet 3.x was withdrawn. As such, this module is not compatible with Puppet 3.

Module Description

  • Creates a user/group for iri to be run with
  • Creates a INI configuration file
  • Downloads the pre-compiled JAR file from GitHub
  • Creates, enables and starts an iota daemon/service via systemd

Setup

Beginning With puppet-iota

You must specify - either via Hiera or directly in Puppet - the version of iri to download and an Array of neighbors to use.

Java Options

  • The module will ensure the presence of a JRE via the puppetlabs/java module.
  • By default, the value of Java's Xms and Xmx settings will be 90% of available system RAM, expressed in Megabytes. To change this, use the java_ram_mb parameter.
  • To set advanced Java options (for example -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true), use the java_opts parameter.

Usage Example

To download version 1.4.1.2 of iri and manually specify three neighbors:

class { '::iota':
  version   => '1.4.1.2',
  neighbors => [
    'udp:://someone.else:15600',
    'tcp://some.other.server:14600',
    'tcp://10.10.10.10:1234',
  ],
}

Advanced Usage

Note: setting TCP and UDP port numbers to undef will remove them from iota.ini

class { '::iota':
  testnet          => true,
  debug            => true,
  version          => '1.4.1.2',
  java_ram_mb      => 8192,
  tcp_port         => undef,
  udp_port         => 15600,
  remote_limit_api => [
    'attachToTangle',
    'addNeighbors'
  ],
  neighbors        => [
    'udp:://someone.else:15600',
    'tcp://some.other.server:14600',
    'tcp://10.10.10.10:1234',
  ],
}

Reference

IRI Configuration Parameters

Classes

iota::account

  • Creates the user and group to use with iri

iota::config

  • Places the daemon configuration

iota::install

  • Downloads the IRI Java JAR file from GitHub to the iota user's home directory
  • Installs the packages necessary to run the headless daemon

iota::service

  • Deploys systemd configuration files for running the iota service
  • Ensures the iota service is running

Limitations

The module does not manage or install any GUI, for example Nostalgia

Supported Operating Systems

Versions higher than those listed below may work, but are not tested.

  • RHEL/Scientific/CentOS 7
  • Debian 8
  • Ubuntu 16.04

Development

  • Copyright (C) Craig Watson - craig@cwatson.org
  • Distributed under the terms of the Apache License v2.0 - see LICENSE file for details.
  • The project ships with a working Vagrant environment with boxes configured for each supported OS version.
  • Further contributions and testing reports are extremely welcome - please submit a pull request or issue on GitHub