Moonbeam Scripts

This repo provides a set of utility scripts for running Moonbeam's node.

Requirement	Passed
8-cores-cpu-and-16-gb-ram-and-50GB-storage instance.	✅
Allow tcp 30333 and 30334 ports	✅
SSH into an instance	✅
Stressfree	✅

Prerequisite

Step 1

Make sure you have gcloud cli installed.

If you don't have it, please follow installation step here

Step 2

Initialize the cloud sdk, follow the steps here

At the end, you should have logged-in account and selected cloud project.

Create Google Cloud Compute Instance

Run the command below

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/npty/blockchain-node-scripts/master/moonbeam/create-gcloud-instance.sh \
    --output create-gcloud-instance.sh && \
    chmod +x create-gcloud-instance.sh && \
    ./create-gcloud-instance.sh -n YOUR_INSTANCE_NAME

Note: Replace YOUR_INSTANCE_NAME with your desired name.

Setup Moonbeam Node

This is basically put every commands here into one shell script file.

Run the following command to run all required steps:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/npty/blockchain-node-scripts/master/moonbeam/barebone-moonbeam-setup.sh | bash

Setup systemd service

Step 1: Prepare Environment Variables

Place the following content at /etc/moonbeam/moonbeam-service.env

PUBLIC_KEY=YOUR_ERC20_ADDRESS
NODE_NAME=YOUR_NODE_NAME

Step 2: Setup systemd service

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/npty/blockchain-node-scripts/master/moonbeam/setup-systemd-service.sh | bash

Run Moonbeam Node

sudo systemctl enable moonbeam.service
sudo systemctl start moonbeam.service

You can verify the service is running with: sudo systemctl status moonbeam.service

You can also check the logs by executing: sudo journalctl -f -u moonbeam.service

Upgrade Moonbeam Node

sudo systemctl stop moonbeam

Then, rerun setup Moonbeam Node script.

Once it completed, run sudo systemctl start moonbeam.service