[IPFS 101] IPFS 101 #IPFS #101 #interplanetary #filesystem

IPFS-101.md

IPFS 101

#https://medium.com/@s_van_laar/deploy-a-private-ipfs-network-on-ubuntu-in-5-steps-5aad95f7261b
#https://labs.eleks.com/2019/03/ipfs-network-data-replication.html
#https://www.joranhonig.nl/stealing-info-using-ipfs-fuse/

By default, IPFS and IPFS-Cluster use the following ports:

IPFS
4001 – Communication with other nodes
5001 – API server
8080 – Gateway server

IPFS-CLUSTER
9094 – HTTP API endpoint
9095 – IPFS proxy endpoint
9096 – Cluster swarm, used for communication between cluster nodes

• Download and install go

wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.20.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
rm -rf /usr/local/go && tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.20.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin" >> /etc/profile
source /etc/profile
go version

• Download and install ipfs

wget https://dist.ipfs.tech/kubo/v0.19.1/kubo_v0.19.1_linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xvfz kubo_v0.19.1_linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo cp kubo/ipfs /usr/local/bin/ipfs
ipfs version

• Initialize all nodes IPFS_PATH=~/.ipfs ipfs init

• Generate new swarm key on bootstrap node and then copy it to ~/.ipfs/ folder on client node

echo -e "/key/swarm/psk/1.0.0/\n/base16/\n`tr -dc 'a-f0-9' < /dev/urandom | head -c64`" > ~/.ipfs/swarm.key

• Purge existing keys on all nodes IPFS_PATH=~/.ipfs ipfs bootstrap rm --all

• Check results IPFS_PATH=~/.ipfs ipfs config show #should output bootstrap: null

• Get peerID IPFS_PATH=~/.ipfs ipfs config show | grep "PeerID"

• Assemble PeerID with ip address #execute command of all nodes (even bootstrap node apparently) IPFS_PATH=~/.ipfs ipfs bootstrap add /ip4/<ip address of bootnode>/tcp/4001/ipfs/<peer identity hash of bootnode>

• Start network #export LIBP2P_FORCE_PNET=1 force node to be private

export LIBP2P_FORCE_PNET=1
IPFS_PATH=~/.ipfs ipfs daemon &

• Add file to cluster and force sync

mkdir ipfstest
cd ipfstest
echo "Hello World!" > file1.txt
IPFS_PATH=~/.ipfs ipfs add file1.txt
IPFS_PATH=~/.ipfs ipfs cat <hash of the file>

• Add folder to ipfs with recursive mode IPFS_PATH=~/.ipfs ipfs add -r ipfstest

• Can now be accessed through hash in a browser http://127.0.0.1:8080/ipfs/QmfM2r8seH2GiRaC4esTjeraXEachRt8ZsSeGaWTPLyMoG

• Create systemd service

#/etc/systemd/system/ipfs.service
[Unit]
 Description=IPFS Daemon
 After=syslog.target network.target remote-fs.target nss-lookup.target
 [Service]
 Type=simple
 Environment="LIBP2P_FORCE_PNET=1"
 IPFS_LOGGING=debug
 TimeoutStartSec=infinity
 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ipfs daemon
 User=root
 Restart=on-failure
 KillSignal=SIGINT
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target

• Enable and start service

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable ipfs
sudo systemctl start ipfs
sudo systemctl status ipfs

• Enable WebUI

wget https://ipfs.io/api/v0/get/QmfQkD8pBSBCBxWEwFSu4XaDVSWK6bjnNuaWZjMyQbyDub
tar -xf QmfQkD8pBSBCBxWEwFSu4XaDVSWK6bjnNuaWZjMyQbyDub
IPFS_PATH=~/.ipfs ipfs add -r QmfQkD8pBSBCBxWEwFSu4XaDVSWK6bjnNuaWZjMyQbyDub
firefox http://127.0.0.1:8080/ipfs/IPFS_PATH=~/.ipfs ipfs add -r QmfQkD8pBSBCBxWEwFSu4XaDVSWK6bjnNuaWZjMyQbyDub