Managing Ethereum nodes using Ansible

Our friends as SlingNode have just released their first Open Source project. We know how much work goes into projects like this and wanted to share this on our blog.

The slingnode.ethereum Ansible role, can be used to deploy and configure Ethereum nodes. The role utilizes Docker Compose to deploy the Ethereum Clients.

The first release supports the following clients:

Execution clients:

Geth
Nethermind
Besu
Erigon

Consensus clients:

Lighthouse
Prysm
Teku
Nimbus

Validator clients:

Lighthouse
Prysm
Teku
Nimbus

From what we can tell this is the first and only Open Source project that allows for deploying Ethereum servers using Ansible with a focus towards DevOps Teams managing hundreds of servers.

Check out the documentation:

https://docs.slingnode.com/slingnode.ethereum/

View the role on Ansible-Galaxy:

https://galaxy.ansible.com/slingnode/ethereum

Contribute on GitHub:

https://github.com/SlingNode/slingnode-ansible-ethereum

They have a comprehensive set of example playbooks showing how to deploy Ethereum nodes at scale:

https://github.com/SlingNode/slingnode-ethereum-examples

Good luck to SlingNode Team!

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