hub/cluster_guide.md

Cluster environment guide

For best performance the recommended setup uses three server instances, these can be rented VPSs, self hosted VMs (ideally not on one physical host unless the host is sufficiently powerful), or physical computers. One is a dedicated lbcd node, one an elasticsearch server, and the third runs the scribe services. With this configuration the lbcd and elasticsearch servers can be shared between multiple scribe hub servers - more on that later. Server Requirements (space requirements are at least double what's needed so it's possible to copy snapshots into place or make snapshots):

• lbcd: 2 cores, 8gb ram (slightly more may be required syncing from scratch, from a snapshot 8 is plenty), 150gb of NVMe storage
• elasticsearch: 8 cores, 9gb of ram (8gb minimum given to ES), 150gb of SSD speed storage
• scribe: 8 cores, 32gb of ram, 200gb of NVMe storage

All servers are assumed to be running ubuntu 20.04 with user named lbry with passwordless sudo and docker group permissions, ssh configured, ulimits set high, and docker + docker-compose installed. The server running elasticsearch should have swap disabled. The three servers need to be able to communicate with each other, they can be on a local network together or communicate over the internet. This guide will assume the three servers are on the internet.

Setting up the lbcd instance

Log in to the lbcd instance and perform the following steps:

• Build the lbcd docker image by running

git clone https://github.com/lbryio/lbcd.git
cd lbcd
docker build . -t lbry/lbcd:latest

• Copy the following to ~/docker-compose.yml

version: "3"

volumes:
  lbcd:

services:
  lbcd:
    image: lbry/lbcd:latest
    restart: always
    network_mode: host
    command:
      - "--rpcuser=lbry"
      - "--rpcpass=lbry"
      - "--rpclisten=127.0.0.1"
    volumes:
      - "lbcd:/root/.lbcd"
    ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:9245:9245"
      - "9246:9246"  # p2p port

• Start lbcd by running docker-compose up -d
• Check the progress with docker-compose logs -f --tail 100

Setting up the elasticsearch instance

Log in to the elasticsearch instance and perform the following steps:

• Copy the following to ~/docker-compose.yml

version: "3"

volumes:
  es01:

services:
  es01:
    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.16.0
    container_name: es01
    environment:
      - node.name=es01
      - discovery.type=single-node
      - indices.query.bool.max_clause_count=8192
      - bootstrap.memory_lock=true
      - "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true -Xms8g -Xmx8g"  # no more than 32, remember to disable swap
    ulimits:
      memlock:
        soft: -1
        hard: -1
    volumes:
      - "es01:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data"
    ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:9200:9200"

• Start elasticsearch by running docker-compose up -d
• Check the status with docker-compose logs -f --tail 100

Setting up the scribe hub instance

• Log in (ssh) to the scribe instance and generate and print out a ssh key, this is needed to set up port forwards to the other two instances. Copy the output of the following:

ssh-keygen -q -t ed25519 -N '' -f ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 <<<y >/dev/null 2>&1

• After copying the above key, log out of the scribe hub instance.

• Log in to the elasticsearch instance add the copied key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (see this if confused). Log out of the elasticsearch instance once done.

• Log in to the lbcd instance and add the copied key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, log out when done.

• Log in to the scribe instance and copy the following to /etc/systemd/system/es-tunnel.service, replacing lbry with your user and your-elastic-ip with your elasticsearch instance ip.

[Unit]
Description=Persistent SSH Tunnel for ES
After=network.target

[Service]
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ssh -NTC -o ServerAliveInterval=60 -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes -L 127.0.0.1:9200:127.0.0.1:9200 lbry@your-elastic-ip
User=lbry
Group=lbry

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• Next, copy the following to /etc/systemd/system/lbcd-tunnel.service on the scribe instance, replacing lbry with your user and your-lbcd-ip with your lbcd instance ip.

[Unit]
Description=Persistent SSH Tunnel for lbcd
After=network.target

[Service]
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ssh -NTC -o ServerAliveInterval=60 -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes -L 127.0.0.1:9245:127.0.0.1:9245 lbry@your-lbcd-ip
User=lbry
Group=lbry

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• Verify you can ssh in to the elasticsearch and lbcd instances from the scribe instance
• Enable and start the ssh port forward services on the scribe instance

sudo systemctl enable es-tunnel.service
sudo systemctl enable lbcd-tunnel.service
sudo systemctl start es-tunnel.service
sudo systemctl start lbcd-tunnel.service

• Build the scribe docker image on the scribe hub instance by running the following:

git clone https://github.com/lbryio/scribe.git
cd scribe
docker build -f ./docker/Dockerfile.scribe -t lbry/scribe:development .

• Copy the following to ~/docker-compose.yml on the scribe instance

version: "3"

volumes:
  lbry_rocksdb:

services:
  scribe:
    depends_on:
      - scribe_elastic_sync
    image: lbry/scribe:${SCRIBE_TAG:-development}
    restart: always
    network_mode: host
    volumes:
      - "lbry_rocksdb:/database"
    environment:
      - HUB_COMMAND=scribe
    command:
      - "--daemon_url=http://lbry:lbry@127.0.0.1:9245"
      - "--max_query_workers=2"
      - "--cache_all_tx_hashes"
  scribe_elastic_sync:
    image: lbry/scribe:${SCRIBE_TAG:-development}
    restart: always
    network_mode: host
    ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:19080:19080"  # elastic notifier port
    volumes:
      - "lbry_rocksdb:/database"
    environment:
      - HUB_COMMAND=scribe-elastic-sync
    command:
      - "--elastic_host=127.0.0.1"
      - "--elastic_port=9200"
      - "--max_query_workers=2"
      - "--filtering_channel_ids=770bd7ecba84fd2f7607fb15aedd2b172c2e153f 95e5db68a3101df19763f3a5182e4b12ba393ee8"
      - "--blocking_channel_ids=dd687b357950f6f271999971f43c785e8067c3a9 06871aa438032244202840ec59a469b303257cad b4a2528f436eca1bf3bf3e10ff3f98c57bd6c4c6"
  scribe_hub:
    depends_on:
      - scribe_elastic_sync
      - scribe
    image: lbry/scribe:${SCRIBE_TAG:-development}
    restart: always
    network_mode: host
    ports:
      - "50001:50001" # electrum rpc port and udp ping port
      - "2112:2112"   # comment out to disable prometheus metrics
    volumes:
      - "lbry_rocksdb:/database"
    environment:
      - HUB_COMMAND=scribe-hub
    command:
      - "--daemon_url=http://lbry:lbry@127.0.0.1:9245"
      - "--elastic_host=127.0.0.1"
      - "--elastic_port=9200"
      - "--max_query_workers=4"
      - "--host=0.0.0.0"
      - "--max_sessions=100000"
      - "--filtering_channel_ids=770bd7ecba84fd2f7607fb15aedd2b172c2e153f 95e5db68a3101df19763f3a5182e4b12ba393ee8"
      - "--blocking_channel_ids=dd687b357950f6f271999971f43c785e8067c3a9 06871aa438032244202840ec59a469b303257cad b4a2528f436eca1bf3bf3e10ff3f98c57bd6c4c6"
      - "--prometheus_port=2112"                # comment out to disable prometheus metrics

• Start the scribe hub services by running docker-compose up -d
• Check the status with docker-compose logs -f --tail 100