Run Full Node¶

Introduction¶

According to description in Type of Nodes, you can run Full Node, Archive Node or Validator Node on ContextFree Network.
In this section, we briefly introduce how to run Full Node or Archive Node
For running Validator Node, please refer to the next section.

Preparation¶

Dependencies¶

Install Docker
Please go to this link to download the docker engine for your Operating System accordingly.

Create a Local Directory To Store the Chain Data¶

You may need sudo permission to run the following commands.
Firstly create a folder to store the synchronized on-chain data
```
mkdir /chain
```
Change the ownership and permission of your local storage directory to current user
```
sudo chown -R $(id -u):$(id -g) /chain
```

Launch Node¶

Launch Full Node¶

Run the following command to launch a Full Node, you may need sudo permission:

  docker run -it \
  -v "/chain:/data" \
  -u $(id -u ${USER}):$(id -g ${USER}) \
  -d \
  atactr/automata:contextfree-v0.1.0-rc4 \
  --node-type full \
  --name <YOUR_NODE_NAME>

Which will return the c_ontainer ID of your node
<YOUR_NODE_NAME> can be anything, but it's recommended to have something unique to make it easier to identify your node.

Launch Archive Node¶

Run the following command to launch a Archive Node, you may need sudo permission:

docker run -it \
-v "/chain:/data" \
-u $(id -u ${USER}):$(id -g ${USER}) \
-d \
atactr/automata:contextfree-v0.1.0-rc4 \
--node-type archive \
--name <YOUR_NODE_NAME>

Which will return the container ID of your node
<YOUR_NODE_NAME> can be anything, but it's recommended to have something unique to make it easier to identify your node.

Check Launch Status¶

Check whether your node downloading blocks by checking the logs
```
docker logs --follow <YOUR_CONTAINER_ID>
```
If it works fine, the beginning of the log should look like
Take note of your node identity behind "Local node identity is: ...". This will be very important for identifying your node on the Telemetry, as the node name can be duplicated.
Notice that you should have a non-zero number of "peers" connected as shown in the image above.
If the logs saying "Error while dialing /dns/...", don't be panic, normally it may take a few minutes for the node to connect to the Telemetry server, after that the error will stop popping up.