Setup on Digital Ocean

This page is about how to install try_out_noise on a fresh Digital Ocean instance.

As root user

Install Node:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Create a new user called noise:

adduser --disabled-password noise

Give the noise user permission to read the logs of the processes spawned by Systemd via journalctl:

usermod -aG systemd-journal noise

Give all the existing admins (that have root access) access to the noise user:

mkdir /home/noise/.ssh
chmod 700 /home/noise/.ssh
sudo cp /root/.ssh/authorized_keys /home/noise/.ssh/
chown -R noise:noise /home/noise/.ssh

Now the noise user should be set up properly. The next steps can be performed as that user.

As noise

Install Rust so that node-noise can be built:

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

If you are unsure, just always say "yes".

Now clone the actual try_out_noise repository and go into that directory:

git clone https://github.com/pipedown/try_out_noise
cd try_out_noise

Now follow the try_out_noise README.