info_tfgrid/collections/system_administrators/advanced/hummingbot.md

Hummingbot on a Full VM

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Prerequisites
• Deploy a Full VM
• Preparing the VM
• Setting Hummingbot
• References

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Introduction

Hummingbot is an open source platform that helps you design, backtest, and deploy fleets of automated crypto trading bots.

In this guide, we go through the basic steps to deploy a Hummingbot instance on a full VM running on the TFGrid.

Prerequisites

• A TFChain account
• TFT in your TFChain account
  • Buy TFT
  • Send TFT to TFChain

Deploy a Full VM

We start by deploying a full VM on the ThreeFold Dashboard.

• On the Threefold Dashboard, go to the full virtual machine deployment page
• Deploy a full VM (Ubuntu 22.04) with an IPv4 address and at least the minimum specs for Hummingbot
  • IPv4 Address
  • Minimum vcores: 1vcore
  • Minimum MB of RAM: 4096GB
  • Minimum storage: 15GB
• After deployment, note the VM IPv4 address
• Connect to the VM via SSH

  • ssh root@VM_IPv4_address
    

Preparing the VM

We prepare the full to run Hummingbot.

• Update the VM

  apt update
  

• Install Docker

Setting Hummingbot

We clone the Hummingbot repo and start it via Docker.

• Clone the Hummingbot repository

  git clone https://github.com/hummingbot/hummingbot.git
  cd hummingbot
  

• Start Hummingbot

  docker compose up -d
  

• Attach to instance

  docker attach hummingbot
  

You should now see the Hummingbot page.

References

The information to install Hummingbot have been taken directly from their documentation.

For any advanced configurations, you may refer to the Hummingbot documentation.