Subnostr

Lets see if there is interest in this from the #selfhosting community on this:

2100 sats: I write a guide on how to set up your own, self-hosted, always-on lightning node and publish it

21000 sats: I write an ansible script to automatically set it up and publish that

Today I used a script to install LND. After that, I manually created a wallet with the command line tool, but I spend my time writing #documentation on the manual processes instead of forging ahead. I do not regret this.

I'm not sure if I'll have #lnd listen on the main interface or leave it on the loopback and have nginx proxy requests through. Nginx can deal with TLS cert renewals via certbot/LetsEncrypt extremely easily, so that's appealing.

It looks like LND is only beta quality software and can't handle more than just a simgle wallet. It's still useful, but I thought it was stable and could deal with multiple wallets, so this is a huge disappointment for me.

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cloud fodder 1y ago

🤔 I too spent some time installing this kind of stack from scratch. I switched to litd recently, because I wanted to try lightning terminal. I think most setups use litd now (it has lnd built in, and is basically the same thing but with a few extras).

For multiple wallets, lnbits handles this for me (with either lnd or litd) I know the recent trend has been to shit on lnbits but I haven't had any probs with it for over a year now.

Dr. Hax 1y ago

For me, installing from scratch is just running a single command (ansible-playbook). Nice and repeatable. 🙂 So to get a full node and lightning node, it's just two commands.

Of course setting up or restoring a wallet, opening channels, and all that is not part of the automation.

Personally, I like the ability to choose specific software and mix 'n' match, but I can certainly see why people would want these node-in-a-box type solutions.

cloud fodder 1y ago

That sounds nice yeah.. esp if it can handle upgrades..

Dr. Hax 1y ago

🤔

Yes, but not they're not automatic (for better or worse).

cloud fodder 1y ago

Automatic would be bad 😎 So thats all good. I use the pre built binaries for everything except for lnbits I convert it's pre built docker container to systemd-nspawn and swap em.