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Quickstart: running a nwaku node

This guide helps you run a nwaku node with typical configuration. It connects your node to the waku.sandbox fleet for bootstrapping and enables discovery v5 for continuous peer discovery. Only relay protocol is enabled. For a more comprehensive overview, see our step-by-step guide.

Option 1: run nwaku binary

Prerequisites are the usual developer tools, such as a C compiler, Make, Bash and Git.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku
cd nwaku
make wakunode2
./build/wakunode2 \
  --dns-discovery:true \
  --dns-discovery-url:enrtree://AIRVQ5DDA4FFWLRBCHJWUWOO6X6S4ZTZ5B667LQ6AJU6PEYDLRD5O@sandbox.waku.nodes.status.im \
  --discv5-discovery \
  --nat=extip:[yourpublicip] # or, if you are behind a nat: --nat=any

Option 2: run nwaku in a Docker container

Prerequisite is a Docker installation.

docker run -i -t -p 60000:60000 -p 9000:9000/udp \
  wakuorg/nwaku:v0.20.0 \ # or, the image:tag of your choice
    --dns-discovery:true \
    --dns-discovery-url:enrtree://AIRVQ5DDA4FFWLRBCHJWUWOO6X6S4ZTZ5B667LQ6AJU6PEYDLRD5O@sandbox.waku.nodes.status.im \
    --discv5-discovery \
    --nat:extip:[yourpublicip] # or, if you are behind a nat: --nat=any

Option 3: run nwaku with docker compose

Prerequisites: docker and docker-compose. Allows to run nwaku with prometheus and grafana, with an already provisioned dashboard, in a few simple steps. See nwaku-compose.

git clone https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku-compose
cd nwaku-compose
docker-compose up -d

Go to http://localhost:3000/d/yns_4vFVk/nwaku-monitoring?orgId=1 and after some seconds, your node metrics will be live there. As simple as that.

Tips and tricks

To find the public IP of your host, you can use

dig TXT +short o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @ns1.google.com | awk -F'"' '{ print $2}'

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