Run a Holesky node

Prerequisites

  • Docker is installed and running.

  • Git is installed.

  • If using Windows, you should install Git BASH or WSL to use as your terminal.

Steps

  1. Clone eth-docker Terminal window git clone https://github.com/eth-educators/eth-docker cd eth-docker

  2. Do the eth-docker quickstart config Complete the eth-docker quickstart. You will need to run the config command:

Terminal window ./ethd config

Make sure to enable Grafana dashboards.

  1. Expose RPC ports To expose the node’s RPC ports (for a Taiko node to make calls to it), you can append el-shared.yml to the list of files in the COMPOSE_FILE variable in your .env file:

COMPOSE_FILE=lighthouse-cl-only.yml:geth.yml:el-shared.yml

Keep in mind this is not encrypted, so you should not expose it to the internet. eth-docker offers a few other options that you can read about here.

  1. Enable archive node Also in the .env file, set the value ARCHIVE_NODE to true:

ARCHIVE_NODE=true

This is no longer required to run a Taiko node.

  1. Start Docker containers Terminal window ./ethd up

  2. Check your node is running properly You can visit the Grafana dashboard which should be running on localhost:3000 to verify if your node is running correctly. You should see the chain head increasing.

Video tutorial See Run a Sepolia L1 archive node (YouTube), the only difference is you need to select Holesky testnet.