Documentation Feature Request: Explain me how to "Generate a validator public / private key" when building with Bazel

[chrishobcroft]

Explanation of the problem:

In the process of setting up as a validator, step 3 is to "Generate a validator public / private key"

The site currently explains what docker commands to run in order to do this (see screenshot below).

I am following the method which involves building from source using bazel, and there is no explanation for how to generate a validator public / private key via this approach.

Proposed solution

To include an explanation for how to generate a validator public / private key without using docker.

Perhaps there is some bazel command that can be run, assuming that I have already run bazel build //validator:validator and bazel build //beacon-chain:beacon-chain?

Screenshots

[har00ga]

+1 to this, definitely worth implementing. The Gitbook will also be featuring an 'Activating a Validator' section early next week, and this information would be good to include with that update. 🙂

[chrishobcroft]

Can anyone tell me how to do this, so that I can make progress with setting up a validator node?

[prestonvanloon]

@chrishobcroft to generate the keys using bazel, you can run

bazel run //validator -- accounts create --keystore-path=$HOME/beacon-chain --password=changeme

[chrishobcroft]

Cool, thanks @prestonvanloon that seems to have worked.

[chrishobcroft]

So, following up on this, it also appears that step 4 assumes docker.

Can someone please tell me the command to run via bazel?

[prestonvanloon]

Hey @chrishobcroft, it's basically the same idea.

Replace docker run ... with bazel run //beacon-chain --.

We should definitely offer instructions on building and running from source.

bazel run //beacon-chain -- --datadir=$HOME/beacon-chain --init-sync-no-verify

bazel run //validator -- --keystore-path=$HOME/beacon-chain --password=changeme

[har00ga]

Implemented into the Gitbook: https://prysmaticlabs.gitbook.io/prysm/activating-a-validator

[chrishobcroft]

Woop! 👍 🥇 💯