Control Your Setup Stack

Once you use sedge cli or sedge generate to generate the docker-compose.yml file, you can handle it by yourself. This guide will show you how.

There are several reasons why you would need to manage the setup after using Sedge for generating the setup files. You might want to modify the .env or docker-compose.yml file to change the setup configuration, or simply copy these files to another machine. Currently, Sedge runs the docker compose stack that was generated using sedge run. You can use sedge logs and sedge down on any docker-compose.yml.

caution

Each time you execute sedge cli or sedge generate to generate the docker-compose file, that file and all modified files under the sedge-data directory will be overwritten except the keystore folder.

tip

You can point to a different generation path by using the --path option. This is useful if you want to generate the files in a different directory, or if you want to generate multiple setups.

info

You can learn more about sedge logs if you check here in our documentation.

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You can learn more about sedge down if you check here in our documentation.

Execute the setup

Once generated the docker-compose file, you can modify either the environment variables in the .env file or the docker-compose.yml under the sedge-data directory.

After that, you can run the following command to start the setup from the sedge-data directory:

docker compose up -d

or the following command from any directory assuming that you have the path to the sedge-data folder (let's call it <path>):

docker compose -f <path> up -d

Stop the setup

To stop the setup, you can run the following command from the sedge-data directory:

docker compose down

or the following command from any directory assuming that you have the path to the sedge-data folder (let's call it <path>):

docker compose -f <path> down

Check the container logs

The compose stack is made of several running docker containers. The setup for an Ethereum full node that Sedge applies consists of a container for each node (execution, consensus and validator node). You can run the following command to check the logs of a given container/node from the sedge-data directory:

docker compose logs <node>

Replace <node> with the node type, e.g: execution, consensus, validator

or the following command from any directory assuming that you have the path to the sedge-data folder (let's call it <path>):

docker compose -f <path> logs <node>

Press ctrl+c or control+c to exit from the docker compose logs command.