Tezos suite by MIDL.dev

MIDL.dev maintains the following open-source software projects to make it easy to deploy a baking setup:

• Tezos-on-GKE: deploys a secure baker setup in Google Kubernetes Engine in just one command
• Tezos-remote-signer-OS: operating system for a secure, highly available Tezos remote signer setup
• Tezos-auxiliary-cluster: a toolkit for public bakers: monitors baking operations, issues payouts, and generates a dynamic baking website.

Architecture

The best known baking tool, Kiln, is a complete solution for home baking, to be installed on physical hardware. Tezos-on-GKE, in contrast, outsources most of the computing to the cloud, increasing reliability and decreasing the operating burden of the baking operations.

Signing operations on a hardware wallet is best kept in hardware under the baker’s control. We provide a hardened remote signer OS that allows you to securely connect to the cloud setup and sign baking and endorsing operations.

Since the signing operations are of paramount importance, a separate Kubernetes cluster with separate authentication credentials takes care of the auxiliary operations such as payout and monitoring.

These three projects, taken together, allow you to deploy a secure, best-practices baking operation.

The setup supports Tezos mainnet as well as Carthagenet and future test networks.

Roadmap

We are the recipients of a Tezos foundation grant for this project. As part of this, we will:

• improve our monitoring capabilities with Prometheus metric collection and alerting
• improve baking operation uptime by deploying an active-active baking setup with a Kubernetes operator
• leverage this infrastructure to build a snapshot engine that periodically generates Tezos snapshots and makes them available, and maintaining a MIDL.dev branded snapshot website
• increase awareness of the tool by writing documentation, writing articles and interacting with the community of users