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Hardware requirements

Deployment options​

  • VPS instance (on any cloud provider) - recommended
  • Shared compute instance (e.g. AWS EC2 instance)
  • Your personal station

If you prefer running Docker, Docker containers are available at Lava's repository on GitHub.

Hardware requirements​

As the network grows, bandwidth, CPU, and memory requirements rise. Large hard drives are recommended for storing years of blockchain history, as well as significant RAM to process the increasing amount of transactions.

Recommended settings to get started

Node TypeRAMStorageCPU
Full (Minimum)8GB100GB SSDx64 2.0 GHz 4v CPU
Full (Recommended)16GB512GB SSDx64 2.0 GHz 4v CPU
Running on AWS?

Settings:

  • Minimum Instance Type - c4.xlarge
  • Configure storage - GP2 drive

Operating system​

  • For using the prebuilt lavad - you need to run Ubuntu - 20 or newer.
  • sudo permissions on your machine (e.g. can run sudo hostname)

Network configurations​

  • Outbound - allow all traffic
  • Inbound - open the following ports:
    • 1317 - REST
    • 26657 - TENDERMINT_RPC
    • 26656 - Cosmos
Planning to run as an RPC Provider?

Add these specific ports:

  • 22221
  • 22231
  • 22241