# How and Where To Run DVs

## Launchers and Deployment Tooling

* [Obol CDVN](https://github.com/ObolNetwork/charon-distributed-validator-node)
* [Obol K8s](https://github.com/ObolNetwork/charon-k8s-distributed-validator-node)
* [Obol Helm Charts](https://github.com/ObolNetwork/helm-charts)
* [Obol Ansible Playbooks](https://github.com/ObolNetwork/obol-ansible)
* [Dappnode](https://docs.dappnode.io/docs/user/staking/ethereum/dvt-technologies/obol-network/)
* [Stereum](https://stereum.net/)
* [Sedge](https://github.com/ObolNetwork/sedge/blob/develop/docs/docs/quickstart/charon.mdx)
* [Terraform Charon Relay](https://github.com/ObolNetwork/terraform-charon-relay)
* [Terraform Grafana Charon dashboards](https://github.com/ObolNetwork/terraform-grafana-dashboards)

## Quickstart Guides

* [Run a DV alone](https://github.com/ObolNetwork/obol-gitbook/blob/version-v1.9/run/start/quickstart_alone.mdx)
* [Run a DV as a group](https://github.com/ObolNetwork/obol-gitbook/blob/version-v1.9/run/start/quickstart_group.mdx)

## CL+VC Combinations:

**Legend**

* ✅: All duties succeed in testing
* 🟡: All duties succeed in testing, except non-penalised aggregation duties
* 🟠: Duties may fail for this combination
* 🔴: One or more duties fails consistently

| Validator 👉 Consensus 👇 | Teku v24.10.3 | Lighthouse v5.3.0 | Lodestar v1.23.0 | Nimbus v24.10.0 | Prysm v5.1.2 | Remarks                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| ------------------------- | ------------- | ----------------- | ---------------- | --------------- | ------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Teku v24.10.3             | ✅             | 🟡                | ✅                | ✅               | 🟠           | Teku `beacon node` needs the `--validators-graffiti-client-append-format=DISABLED` flag in order to produce blocks properly. Teku `validator client` is only failing aggregation duties 50% of the time, which are not directly penalised but impact network density at high scale. |
| Lighthouse v5.3.0         | ✅             | 🟡                | ✅                | ✅               | ✅            | Lighthouse `validator client` is only failing aggregation duties, which are not directly penalised but impact network density at high scale.                                                                                                                                        |
| Lodestar v1.23.0          | ✅             | 🟡                | ✅                | ✅               | 🟠           |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Nimbus v24.10.0           | ✅             | 🟡                | ✅                | ✅               | 🟠           |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Prysm v5.1.2              | ✅             | 🟡                | ✅                | ✅               | ✅            | Prysm `validator client` is failing aggregation duties 50% of the time, which are not directly penalised but impact network density at high scale. In some combinations rare failures of attestation and proposal duties were observed (0-2% per epoch).                            |

Note: for the most recent compatibility information, please see the [release notes](https://github.com/ObolNetwork/charon/releases/) from the most recent release of Charon.