How to launch a public mainnet node

The STRATO Mercata platform is composed of multiple applications, databases and services using a microservices architecture. Everyone runs an instance of all of these components. For public, user-facing installations, this combination is not really suitable for running on your own computer. It is much easier to run them together on a public cloud service.

For ease of introduction this guide assumes Amazon Web Services with a particular machine setup, using prebuilt binaries. Many of the steps are manual and there is a lot of room for improvement.

There are other “warts” which are largely the legacy of the enterprise past of the codebase. We will note these when they arise, and over time will work to reduce these pain points or excess complexity.

There are three phases to this process.