Ansible cryptogrot.xmr-stak Role

This role will set up and configure the mining tool xmr-stak on a Linux system. Using this role allows you to configure xmr-stak with the required backend from the latest official source code available on GitHub.

Overview

• Features
• Quickstart
  • Pre-requirements
  • Deployment
  • CPU backend
  • NVIDIA backend (experimental)
  • AMD/ATI backend (experimental)
• Advanced setup and configuration

Features

Supported backend types:

• NVIDIA (using CUDA 9.1)
• AMD/ATI (using OpenCL)
• CPU

Supported algorithms:

• Cryptonight (default configuration)
  • (Includes Monero, Sumokin, Electroneum, Intense, etc.)
• Cryptonight-light
  • (Includes AEON, etc.)

Quickstart

Pre-requirements

Ubuntu/Debian

$ sudo apt install python-pip -y

Fedora

$ sudo dnf install python-pip -y

CentOS 7

$ sudo yum install python-pip -y

Deployment

$ sudo pip install -U pip ansible
$ mkdir -p ~/ansible/{inventories/xmr-stak,playbooks/xmr-stak,roles}
$ cat << EOF > ~/ansible/ansible.cfg
[defaults]
host_key_checking = False
roles_path = ./roles
EOF
$ cat << EOF > ~/ansible/playbooks/xmr-stak/site.yml
---
- name: Install xmr-stak miner program
  hosts: all
  user: debian
  become: true

  roles:
    - cryptogrot.xmr-stak
EOF
$ ansible-galaxy install --force --roles-path ~/ansible/roles cryptogrot.xmr-stak

Ansible inventory should be created in ~/ansible/inventories/xmr-stak/hosts. Here is an example for different distributions.

[miner]
192.168.0.2          ansible_user=fedora ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3
192.168.0.3          ansible_user=fedora
192.168.0.4          ansible_user=root
192.168.0.5          ansible_user=ubuntu
192.168.0.6          ansible_user=centos
192.168.0.[13:30] ansible_user=debian ansible_port=22

CPU

$ ansible-playbook -i ~/ansible/inventories/xmr-stak/hosts \
    ~/ansible/playbooks/xmr-stak/site.yml \
    -e "xmr_stak_cpu_support=true \
    xmr_stak_hwloc_support=true \
    xmr_stak_pool_address=itns001.cryptogrot.io \
    xmr_stak_pool_port=6666 \
    xmr_stak_wallet_address=iz69...ihJF5FY7ed319xS...1kXj1N7yRa...Gmwfrh"

NVIDIA

$ ansible-playbook -i ~/ansible/inventories/xmr-stak/hosts \
    ~/ansible/playbooks/xmr-stak/site.yml \
    -e "xmr_stak_nvidia_support: true \
    xmr_stak_pool_address=itns001.cryptogrot.io \
    xmr_stak_pool_port=6666 \
    xmr_stak_wallet_address=iz69...ihJF5FY7ed319xS...1kXj1N7yRa...Gmwfrh"

AMD/ATI

$ ansible-playbook -i ~/ansible/inventories/xmr-stak/hosts \
    ~/ansible/playbooks/xmr-stak/site.yml \
    -e "xmr_stak_amd_support: true \
    xmr_stak_pool_address=itns001.cryptogrot.io \
    xmr_stak_pool_port=6666 \
    xmr_stak_wallet_address=iz69...ihJF5FY7ed319xS...1kXj1N7yRa...Gmwfrh"

License

GPLv3

Author Information

cryptogrot - contact@cryptogrot.io - 2018