Hive
tip
We recommend even our most 1337 readers go through a single installation first to get a taste of Bee, and to understand the nuances of the implementations. 👾
Because of how the swarm is structured, we recommend that users wishing to scale up their Bee operation, or set up a commercial Bee hive should seek to run many instances of Bee simulataneously. Read The Book of Swarm for more information on how the swarm comes together.
Swarm provides tooling to help you install many Bees at once.
Docker#
Up to date Docker images for Bee and Bee Clef are provided.
Docker-Compose#
It becomes easier to run multiple Bee nodes with
docker-compose. Check out the Docker compose section of the
Docker README.
Helm#
If you really want to run a lot of Bee nodes and you have experience using Kubernetes with Helm, you can have a look at how we manage our cluster under Ethersphere/helm.
Manually#
If you just want to run a handful of bee nodes, you can run multiple bee nodes by creating separate configuration files.
Create your first configuration file by running
Make as many copies of bee-config-1.yaml as you want to run bee nodes. Increment the number in the name (bee-config-1 to bee-config-2) for each new configuration file.
Configure your nodes as desired, but ensure that the values api-addr, data-dir, debug-api-addr, p2p-addr and clef-signer-endpoint are unique for each configuration.
Monitoring#
See the monitoring section on how to access Bee's internal metrics! Share your community creations (like swarmMonitor - thanks doristeo!) in the #node-operators channel of our Discord server so we can add you to our list of all things that are awesome and Swarm. 🧡