⚠️ This Documentation only applies to Shards to be added to Ryzom network. ⚠️

So no require Database and some ports must be opened to Ryzom Servers.

Up a fully independent shard can probably be done using https://wiki.ryzom.dev/ doc

Requirements to install a shard (for a comfortable use):

• Choose a name for the shard (Arma/Atys, Yubo, Gingo, Rendor are already used). We call it on this doc the SHARDNAME. Use same name for minion are a good idea ;)
• Have a hardware with at least 8 cores with +3Ghz and 16Go of ram
• Have at least 100Go of disk space (no matter SSD or not)
• Have a domain name
  • ⚠️ Please check the file /etc/hosts. The domain name must be linked only to outgoing address (and not 127.0.1.1). Like :

    37.187.139.90 gingo.ryzom.com gingo

STEP 1 : Install Salt Minion

• run as root:

# Ensure keyrings dir exists
mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
# Download public key
curl -fsSL https://packages.broadcom.com/artifactory/api/security/keypair/SaltProjectKey/public | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/salt-archive-keyring.pgp
# Create apt repo target configuration
curl -fsSL https://github.com/saltstack/salt-install-guide/releases/latest/download/salt.sources | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/salt.sources
apt install salt-minion
echo "master: cloud.ryzom.com" > /etc/salt/minion

• Edit /etc/salt/minion_id and change the name of Minion to SHARDNAME
• Restart the service:

systemctl restart salt-minion

• On ports 4505 and 4506 to cloud.ryzom.com server

• On cloud.ryzom.com server, as root:

salt-key -A
# If all works correctly, You will show you minion and can accept it

• Test it with (on cloud.ryzom.com):

salt '*' test.version

STEP 2 : Configure the Minion

To configure a Minion you need to push the changes into https://gitlab.com/ryzomteam/ryzom-salt.git.

The easiest way is to clone an existing file like ryzom-salt/salt/files/grains/servers/gingo and change the required values.

STEP 3 : Run salt init

The salt master is installed in cloud.ryzom.com, so all commands must be run on this server. To init the shard, run this command as tools user:

/home/data/monitoring/salt/files/update_minions.sh SHARDNAME

• Later if you need to update the minion again, you can access to https://dag.ryzom.com, select Local at top right and run the dag Salting Minion. Enter the name of the Minion and run it

STEP 4 : Start Ribs

Go to https://dag.ryzom.com, select your Shard at top right and start RIBS dag. Check dag logs, you must see installation and finally:

Running...<WSGIServer address=YOUR_DOMAIN:8081>

STEP 5 : Use Ribs to complete Shard Setup