Solana / Agave
The operational details that matter when running private Solana clusters and Agave infrastructure.
Agave is a Solana validator client. This section documents the operational delta: how to build, secure, observe, and recover private Solana / Agave infrastructure, rather than teaching Solana, Proof of History, or consensus. Start with the Agave documentation, then use these pages for the decisions and failure modes that are easy to miss.
Practical notes
- Private-cluster topology
- Genesis configuration
- Faucet
- Networking and trust
- Solana on Kubernetes
- Storage and OS tuning
- Feature gates
- Key hierarchy
- Snapshots and restore
- Exporter
- Validator and RPC nodes
- Validator configuration reference
- RPC security and abuse control
- RPC consistency and client correctness
- Capacity and performance testing
- Operational checklists
- Client choices
- Upgrades and maintenance
- Solana Validator Switch
- Troubleshooting