<aside> 💡 This tutorial will soon be deprecated. Be warned.

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In this tutorial we will do a complete walk through on how to setup Public Representative nodes for the ICON Blockchain on AWS using automation. No cloud experience is needed to follow this tutorial as the tools we will be using will both provision and configure the servers for you.

To follow this tutorial, please signup for AWS. You can choose the "BASIC" account that is free without any technical support.

A note for non-technical folk:

A note on this tutorial: This audience for this tutorial is for people with basic knowledge on how to navigate directories. Each step is documented though it is assumed you know how to cd into and out of a directory in a shell. If you have trouble with following any of this, contact @robcio on telegram and he can assist you in setting it up.

A note for technical folk:

This tutorial is not for developers really as you should be able to get this going easily by cloning the appropriate repos and following the README. If you intend on doing any customization, skim this tutorial to get the gist.

Steps to Setup Nodes

1. Install prerequisites
2. Get AWS IAM Keys
3. Get Keystore and Generate SSH keys
4. Get the code and fill out configs
5. Register your node
6. Deploy infrastructure
7. Clean up

Step 1 - Install Prerequisites