xmr-stak

Ansible cryptogrot.xmr-stak role

This role will install and configure the mining tool xmr-stak on Linux operating system. Using this role give you the possibility to configure xmr-stak with the needed backend from the latest official source code from GitHub.

Overview

Features

Supported backend types:

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

Supported algorithms:

  • Cryptonigth (the one configured by default)
    • (Monero, Sumokin, Electroneum, Intense, etc...)
  • Cryptonigth-ligth
    • (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: Building 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

The Ansible inventory as to be created in ~/ansible/inventories/xmr-stak/hosts file. Here we are trying to provide 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

Install
ansible-galaxy install cryptogrot/ansible-xmr-stak
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