Quick start - Docker#
This page takes you through the steps of getting the Fluffy Portal node running on the public network by use of the public Docker image.
The Docker image gets rebuild from latest master every night and only amd64 is supported currently.
Steps#
Prerequisites#
Use the Docker image to run a Fluffy client on the Portal network#
# Connect to the Portal bootstrap nodes and enable the JSON-RPC APIs.
docker container run -p 8545:8545 statusim/nimbus-fluffy:amd64-master-latest --rpc --rpc-address:0.0.0.0
Note
Port 8545 is published and rpc-address is set to the ANY address in this command to allow access to the JSON-RPC API from outside the Docker image. You might want to adjust that depending on the use case & security model.
It is also recommended to use a mounted volume for Fluffy's --data-dir in case of a long-running container.
Try requesting an execution layer block from the network#
Requesting history content on the Portal network can be easily tested by using the eth_getBlockByHash JSON-RPC from the execution JSON-RPC API.
# Get the hash of a block from your favorite block explorer, e.g.:
BLOCKHASH=0x55b11b918355b1ef9c5db810302ebad0bf2544255b530cdce90674d5887bb286 # Replace this to the block hash of your choice
# Run this command to get the block:
curl -s -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"1","method":"eth_getBlockByHash","params":["'${BLOCKHASH}'", true]}' http://localhost:8545