POA Core spec.json hard-fork update

This guide assumes that you're running this playbook from the same machine you used to make initial deployment of your node. You should already have python and ansible installed, and you have the correct ssh keypair to root-access the node.

1) If you already have a cloned version of the poa-devops repository (https://github.com/poanetwork/poa-devops.git), pull the latest changes:

cd poa-devops
git pull origin master

otherwise, clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/poanetwork/poa-devops.git
cd poa-devops

1) create group_vars/all file:

cp group_vars/hf-spec-change.example group_vars/all

and set the following variables:

1. poa_role - node's role (one of bootnode, validator, moc, explorer, netstat)

2. MAIN_REPO_FETCH: "poanetwork")

3. GENESIS_BRANCH: "core" )

2) Create/edit hosts file:

echo "" > hosts

and put your node's ip address (assuming it's 192.0.2.1) as follows:

[hf-spec-change]
192.0.2.1

make sure you don't have other tags ([...]) in hosts file, and double check you are using your POA CORE node's IP address.

For those who host multiple nodes:

• if all your nodes are of the same role (e.g. all bootnodes), you can run this playbook on all of them by listing their ips, e.g.

  [hf-spec-change]
  192.0.2.1
  192.0.2.2
  192.0.2.3
  192.0.2.4

• if you host nodes of different types you can set poa_role individually against the corresponding ip address like so:

  [hf-spec-change]
  192.0.2.1 poa_role=explorer
  192.0.2.2
  192.0.2.3 poa_role=moc
  192.0.2.4

  on lines where you omitted explicit poa_role, the value from group_vars/all is used.

3) Run the playbook:

ansible-playbook -i hosts site.yml

If you get a ssh connection error, try to add -e 'ansible_ssh_user=ubuntu' to the command line above, substituting ubuntu with correct ssh username, which is usually either ubuntu or root or poa or centos depending on your setup

4) Verify that your node is active in the netstat:

https://core-netstat.poa.network

5) connect to the node

ssh root@192.0.2.1

switch to the home folder of corresponding role:

# substitute validator with your node's role (bootnode, moc, ...)
cd /home/validator

and check the update time of spec.json (should be about the time you started the playbook)

ls -lh
# a long list should appear here, look for spec.json in the rightmost column and check the date and time on the same row

also check that backup was created:

ls -lh spec-hfs/
# look for a file named similar to spec-hf-20180108-174649.json Numbers represent date and time in UTC when the playbook was started