In this guide, you will find step-by-step instructions for downloading, compiling, and installing Cosmovisor on your BitCanna node on the MAINNET. We have provided the simplest methods for installation, so you can quickly and easily get Cosmovisor running on your node.
When a new version of the bcnad binary is released and governance has approved for it to take place, instructions on how to implement the upgrade with Cosmovisor are included on the releasepage on GitHub.
If you have any questions or find anything unclear when reading through this guide, don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Discord. Also, if you have any suggestions for improvement, we welcome you to make a pull request!
Let’s get started!
About Cosmovisor
Cosmovisor is a small process manager for Cosmos SDK application binaries to handle chain upgrades. It works for upgrades that has been approved through governance proposals. In these type of governance proposals the upgrade name and block height is included. If Cosmovisor finds the requirements for this upgrade in the logs of the chain binary, it stops the current binary, switch from the old binary to the new one, and finally restarts the node with the new binary.