Setup your own Cardano Stake Pool

Goals of Heimdall:

Everyone should have the opportunity to operate a stake pool.
Maintaining a stake pool should be as easy as possible. Things that can be automated should be automated.
Operating system independent creation of stake pools.
Discussion base to find the optimal configuration and to collect knowledge.

Create a Stakepool

If you already have one and just want to operate it, you can skip this step.

Install Docker https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/
Create creator docker image ./make-creator.sh. You only need to run this script when you change something at the creator (e.g. updating the repository).
Create stake pool with ./create-stakepool.sh. The script will guide you through the process to define the stake pool configuration. The created stake pool will be stored under stakepools/stakepool-<TICKER>.
Upload to the incentivized-testnet-stakepool registry. There you need to add the created dictionary under stakepools/stakepool-<TICKER>/registry/ and create a pull request.

File	Description
`operator/`	Blueprint to create and use the operator docker image.
`registry/`	If you create a stakepool you need to register the contents at incentivized-testnet-stakepool.
`node_secret.yaml`	Needed to run the stake pool.
`owner.pub`	The owner wallet public key.
`owner.prv`	The owner wallet private key. Never share.
`owner.addr`	The owner wallet address.
`stake_pool.id`	The stake pool id.

After you created a stakepool you can also operate it with Heimdall.

Install docker-compose (https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/)
Build the operator docker image with cd stakepools/stakepool-<TICKER> && ./build-operator.sh
Replace <YOUR_DOCKER_IMAGE> in docker-compose.yaml with the name of your created docker image.
Start the stakepool with docker-compose up

Now the stakepool is running. You can check the status with ./jcli rest v0 node stats get --host "http://127.0.0.1:3100/api".

This project was heavily inspired by organicdesign.com.