Boost

Boost is a tool for Filecoin storage providers to manage data storage and retrievals on Filecoin.

See the docs at https://boost.filecoin.io to get started.

Building and Installing Boost
Running Boost devnet in Docker
External Contribution Guidelines
License

Building and Installing Boost

Compile and install using the instructions at the Building and installing section in the docs.

Running Boost devnet in Docker for development

Prerequisites

Install Docker - https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/

Building Docker images

Build images from the root of the Boost repository

make clean docker/all

If you need to build containers using a specific version of lotus then provide the version as a parameter, e.g. make clean docker/all lotus_version=v1.23.3. The version must be a tag or a remote branch name of Lotus git repo. If the branch or tag you requested does not exist in our Github image repository then you can build the lotus image manually with make clean docker/all lotus_version=test/branch1 build_lotus=1. We are shipping images all releases from Lotus in our Github image repo.

Start devnet Docker stack

make devnet/up

It will spin up lotus, lotus-miner, boost, booster-http and demo-http-server containers. All temporary data will be saved in ./docker/devnet/data folder.

The initial setup could take up to 20 min or more as it needs to download Filecoin proof parameters. During the initial setup, it is normal to see error messages in the log. Containers are waiting for the lotus to be ready. It may timeout several times. Restart is expected to be managed by docker.

Try opening the Boost GUI http://localhost:8080 . Devnet is ready to operate when the URL opens and indicates no errors on the startup page.

You can inspect the status using cd docker/devnet && docker compose logs -f.

Start monitoring docker stack

docker plugin install grafana/loki-docker-driver:latest --alias loki --grant-all-permissions

cd docker/monitoring
docker compose up -d

Connect monitoring stack to devnet stack

docker network connect devnet tempo
docker network connect devnet prometheus

Explore Grafana / Tempo and search for traces

http://localhost:3333 (username: admin ; password: admin)

Making a deal

The boost container is packed with boost and lotus clients. You can connect to the container with the command docker compose exec boost /bin/bash and follow instructions for storing files with Boost guide. But the recommended startup is to follow the semi-interactive demo first:

# Attach to a running boost container
make devnet/exec service=boost

# Execute the demo script /app/sample/make-a-deal.sh
root@83260455bbd2:/app# ./sample/make-a-deal.sh

You can also generate, dense, random cars and automatically make deals by leveraging the script at ./docker/devnet/boost/sample/random-deal.sh. See the scripts comments for usage details.

Accessing Lotus from localhost

By default the docker-compose.yaml does not expose any port of the lotus container. To access the lotus from a local machine:

You can either expose 1234 in docker-compose.yaml or find the IP of the lotus container using docker inspect lotus | grep IPAddress command.
Get the FULLNODE_API_INFO

docker exec -it lotus lotus auth api-info --perm=admin
FULLNODE_API_INFO=eyJ...ms4:/dns/lotus/tcp/1234/http

docker exec -it lotus-miner lotus-miner auth api-info --perm=admin
MINER_API_INFO=eyJ...UlI:/dns/lotus-miner/tcp/2345/http

Change the dns/lotus/tcp/1234/http to ip4/<127.0.0.1 or container's IP>/tcp/1234/http for the use in FULLNODE_API_INFO.

Cleaning up

To stop containers and drop everything:

make devnet/down

rm -rf ~/.cache/filecoin-proof-parameters

External Contribution Guidelines

If you want to contribute to the Boost project, please refer to these guidelines.

License

Dual-licensed under MIT + Apache 2.0

filecoin-project/boost