IPFS Guideline

For more information, please visit the official website: https://docs.ipfs.io/

System Requirements

IPFS requires 512MiB of memory and can run an IPFS node on a Raspberry Pi. However, how much disk space your IPFS installation takes up depends on how much data you're sharing.

A base installation takes up about 12MB of disk space, and the default maximum disk storage is set to 10GB.

REF: https://docs.media.network/ipfs-setup/

Security Group / Firewall Rules

• Allow Inbound

PORT	PROTOCOL	SOURCE IP
8001	TCP	0.0.0.0/0
5001	TCP	0.0.0.0/0
4001	TCP/UDP	0.0.0.0/0

Installation Steps

Download the Linux binary from dist.ipfs.io

wget https://dist.ipfs.io/go-ipfs/v0.9.0/go-ipfs_v0.9.0_linux-amd64.tar.gz && \
tar -xvzf go-ipfs_v0.9.0_linux-amd64.tar.gz && \
cd go-ipfs && \
sudo bash install.sh 

Verify that IPFS is correctly installed

ipfs --version

Configure IPFS_PATH to /data (Optional)

echo "export IPFS_PATH=/data" > ~/.bashrc 
source ~/.bashrc 

IPFS server initialization

ipfs init --profile server

When you're ready to join your node to the public network, run the ipfs daemon in a terminal.

ipfs daemon

Create system service/unit file

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/ipfs.service

[Unit]
Description=IPFS Daemon

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ipfs daemon
User=ubuntu
Restart=always
LimitNOFILE=10240
Environment="IPFS_PATH=/data"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable and start the service

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