As the Fogo mainnet launch approaches, the need for reliable, reproducible, and secure validator infrastructure has never been greater.

At Firstset, we’ve been operating a fleet of Fogo validators and backup nodes as part of the multilocal consensus architecture, and we built something we believe will make life easier for everyone running on Fogo.

We’re open-sourcing the Fogo Community Ansible Collection: a fully-featured set of automation playbooks to deploy, configure, and maintain Fogo validator nodes with production-grade security and consistency.

You can also find it on Ansible Galaxy here: firstset.fogo_community

Running a Fogo validator isn’t just about spinning up a single server — the network’s multilocal consensus model requires many nodes working in sync, across geographies.
Manually configuring and updating each one quickly becomes error-prone and time-consuming.

We wanted to make it easier for validators — whether independent operators or institutional participants — to deploy nodes with best-practice configurations, secure defaults, and repeatable automation.

The collection we’re releasing is the same exact framework we’ve been using internally to manage our validator fleet. With this release, we’re opening it up to the broader community so that anyone can benefit from our experience and contribute back improvements.

The collection provides two main roles:

1. Node Bootstrapping. Everything you need to securely prepare a fresh machine .

2. Validator Service Deployment. A fully automated and optimized Firedancer-based validator setup.

3. Validator Service Updates / Upgrades. A centralized and automated process for performing binary upgrades and configuration updates.

Together, these make it possible to go from bare metal to a running, monitored validator with a single playbook.

Fogo’s validator topology is geographically redundant by design. As the network expands to more geographies, each operator will need to manage multiple nodes efficiently.

By adopting this Ansible collection, operators gain:

• Consistency across nodes and environments

• Security with hardened defaults and controlled access

• Automation for repeatable deployments and safe upgrades

• Transparency through open-source code that the community can audit and improve

This is an important step toward building a more resilient, decentralized validator ecosystem as Fogo moves into mainnet.

Install from Ansible Galaxy:

ansible-galaxy collection install firstset.fogo_community

Then try the sample playbooks in the GitHub repository to bootstrap or deploy your first validator node.

All documentation, variables, and configuration examples are included in the repo and Galaxy listing.

This is an open-source project under the MIT license.
We welcome feedback, issues, and pull requests from the validator community.

Special thanks to ASXN for contributing the first external improvements — we look forward to more community involvement as Fogo’s ecosystem grows.

👉 Contribute on GitHub