Flare Node Setup on AWS – April 2021

As quick as possible guide on setting up a Flare Node on AWS, running API calls using Postman and connecting to it on MetaMask.

Links:
Flare Documentation: https://gitlab.com/flarenetwork/flare
Postman: https://www.postman.com/downloads/
Postman Collection: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanche-postman-collection
Article coming soon…

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:40 Register AWS Account
1:34 Flare Network Documentation
3:30 EC2 Server Setup
15:30 Attach Elastic IP to Node
17:17 Connect (SSH) to Node
22:23 Install Go version 1.14.3
22:56 Set up GOPATH
30:20 Install NodeJS
32:50 Install Yarn
33:19 Install JSON Parser (JQ)
33:48 Install cURL
34:10 Install Build Essentials
34:50 Install Flare Node
35:59 Add XRP API’s to Bash Profile
38:21 Start Flare Node Server
40:50 Download Postman
41:14 Configure Postman
45:30 Make API call’s with Postman
47:27 Get NodeID (with Postman)
48:47 Connect to Node on MetaMask
54:28 Stopping Node & Starting with –existing flag

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by Tim Rowley

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