Lib.rs

kHOST

Kaspa p2p node deployment automation tool for Linux.

kHOST was created to automate deployment of Kaspa nodes intended for use as a part of the Kaspa public RPC network as well as private network high-availability clusters. kHOST deploys Rusty-Kaspa nodes from sources, configures them to run as a systemd service as well as configures NGINX to act as a reverse proxy for the RPC. This tool exists to simplify and automate Kaspa node deployment as well as to standardize related system configuration.

Deploying

As root:

sudo -s
apt install -y curl build-essential pkg-config libssl-dev
adduser -q kaspa
adduser kaspa sudo
login kaspa

As kaspa user:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
source "$HOME/.cargo/env"
cargo install khost
khost

If you already have an existing user and rust installed, you can simply run cargo install khost followed by khost.

Please note that the user needs to have root (sudo) privileges to run khost.

IMPORTANT: This tool creates it's own configuration for the kaspad node, as such, any previous configurations should be disabled and removed. If kaspad was running before under the same username, the ~/.rusty-kaspa data folders containing databases will be re-used.