Introduction

Due to the exponential growth of the community and users who want to run their own full node, I thought it is a good time to write a new, more comprehensive tutorial.

Not only a tutorial: the iri-playbook is a full fledged IOTA node installer including a comprehensive installer.

Note

Checkout the new addition to the playbook: a handy tool to help manage the full node’s services:

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Why Another Tutorial?

I am hoping this tutorial, together with the installer will come in handy for those who posses less or almost no skills with Linux. And indeed, this tutorial focuses on Linux – as suggested by many other tutorials (and justifiably), Linux is the best way to go.

I found that many tutorials lack some basic system configuration and explanations thereof. For example, running IRI as an unprivileged user, configuring firewa lls, how to connect to it remotely and so on. While the installer takes care of most of those things, the documentation covers further tweakings, maintenance and upgrades.

A copy-paste tutorial is awesome, and as it so often happens, the user can miss on some basic technical explanation about the setup. While it is impossible to include a crash-course of Linux for the purpose of this tutorial, I will try to explain some basic concepts where I find that many users had troubles with.

Feel free to comment, create issues or contact me on IOTA’s Discord chat application (nuriel77) for advice and information.

Good luck!