Deploying an IPFS node (Kubo) to fly.io

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1. Clone this repo and enter the folder

git clone [email protected]:2color/ipfs-deploy-flyio.git

cd ipfs-deploy-flyio

2. Create the fly app

fly launch --copy-config

Give the app a name when promoted. Do not deploy the app yet if asked.

3. Create fly volume

fly volumes create ipfs_data --size 20

4. Deploy the app

To ensure that the Kubo node is deployed with the updated configuration,

fly deploy

5. Get the IPv4 of the container and update it in ipfs-config.sh

To get the IPv4 of the container, run the following command:

fly ips list

Open ipfs-config.sh, uncomment the last line, and add the IPv4 from the step above:

ipfs config --json Addresses.AppendAnnounce '["/ip4/[ADD_IP_V4_HERE]/tcp/4001"]'

6. Deploy the app again

To ensure that the Kubo node is deployed with the updated configuration,

fly deploy

7. Use fly proxy to interact with the Kubo RPC API

To open a proxy to the Kubo node, run the following command:

fly proxy 5001:5001

Run the ipfs CLI against the deployed Kubo node:

ipfs id --api /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/5001/

(Optional) Scale the node's container memory

To increase the memory allocated (which by default is 256):

fly scale memory 512