Explorer Setup

Avalanche Deploy Stack

This path deploys Blockscout as an add-on onto the cloud infrastructure provisioned by avalanche-deploy (Terraform + Ansible on AWS, GCP, or Azure). It requires a running L1 stack — validators and RPC nodes — deployed by that repo.

Don't have one yet? Follow the Avalanche Deploy L1 guide first, then come back here to add the explorer.

Open Your Deployment Checkout

Run the add-on from the same avalanche-deploy checkout that deployed your stack — terraform apply writes the Ansible inventory (ansible/inventory/<cloud>_hosts) into that working tree, and the Terraform state lives there too.

cd avalanche-deploy

Prerequisites

A Kubernetes cluster with kubectl connected and helm v3 installed. Your L1's RPC endpoint must be reachable from inside the cluster — either the avalanche-deploy L1 charts running in the same cluster, or an external RPC URL.

Not running your L1 on Kubernetes yet? Follow the Avalanche Deploy Kubernetes guide first.

Clone Avalanche Deploy

The Blockscout Helm chart lives in the avalanche-deploy repo. Unlike the Terraform path, a fresh clone works here — the chart only needs your kubectl context:

git clone https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanche-deploy && cd avalanche-deploy/kubernetes

Set up Instance

Set up a linux server with any cloud provider, like AWS, GCP, Azure, or Digital Ocean. 4 vCPUs, 8GB RAM, 40GB storage is enough to get you started. Choose more storage if the Explorer is for a long-running testnet or mainnet L1.