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Avalanche Deploy Integration

Blockscout is available as a built-in add-on in avalanche-deploy, Ava Labs’ open-source Infrastructure as Code toolkit for deploying production Avalanche L1 blockchains and Primary Network validators. This means any team launching an Avalanche L1 can deploy a full Blockscout explorer as part of their infrastructure pipeline — no separate setup required.

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What’s included

The Blockscout add-on deploys the complete stack as a Docker Compose service on your RPC node:
  • Backend indexer
  • Frontend UI
  • Stats service
  • Nginx reverse proxy
Once deployed, the explorer is accessible at http://<archive-rpc-ip>:4001.

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Deployment paths

avalanche-deploy supports two infrastructure paths. Blockscout works with both:
PathCloud supportBest for
Terraform + AnsibleAWS, GCP, AzureProduction environments with full operational tooling
Kubernetes (Helm)Any clusterExisting clusters or local development with kind

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Deploy Blockscout

After deploying your L1, run: 
source l1.env
make deploy-blockscout CHAIN_ID=$CHAIN_ID EVM_CHAIN_ID=99999 CHAIN_NAME="My L1"
Initial indexing can take time for chains with existing history. Monitor progress with: 
docker logs -f blockscout-backend

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Other add-ons

Blockscout is one of several add-ons bundled in avalanche-deploy:
  • eRPC — RPC load balancer with intelligent routing (deployed automatically)
  • Faucet — Token faucet for developer testing
  • The Graph — Subgraph indexing via GraphQL
  • ICM Relayer — Cross-chain messaging between your L1 and C-Chain
  • Safe — Multisig wallet interface

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