Running the Node in a Container (Preferred Method)

Requirements

• TLS Certificates for your Node

• Node Signer Keys (See Signing Consensus Messages)

• Network Configuration File/Consensus config file (network.toml) - See Configuring your Node to Connect to Trusted and Untrusted Peers

• Ledger Storage Location

• S3 Storage Location

Entrypoint and Container Processes

Familiarize yourself with the entrypoint for the consensus docker container.

It contains multiple processes working together to provide the full Consensus Validator functionality.

These processes are the following:

Process	Function
aesm_service	Provides EPID provisioning for the enclave.
filebeat	Provides logging.
mc-ledger-migration	Performs the ledger migration, if necessary, then stops.
ledger-distribution	Distributes the ledger to S3 archive.
mc-admin-http-gateway	Provides the admin panel to the Consensus Service.
consensus-service	Runs the MobileCoin Consensus Service.