# Build Your Node

- [Create Discord Account](https://docs.constellationnetwork.io/run-a-node/validator-node-guides/build-your-node/create-discord-account.md)
- [Node Operator Notes](https://docs.constellationnetwork.io/run-a-node/validator-node-guides/build-your-node/node-operator-notes.md): Important notes to help remind us about the concepts of the three different passphrase/passwords we need to maintain and use on a daily basis to manage our node.
- [Node Specifications](https://docs.constellationnetwork.io/run-a-node/validator-node-guides/build-your-node/node-specifications.md): Constellation Network's Node Spec Requirements.
- [Migrating to Node Pilot](https://docs.constellationnetwork.io/run-a-node/validator-node-guides/build-your-node/migrating-to-node-pilot.md): This guide documents the transition from a manual legacy validator node (regardless of the provider, e.g., AWS, Digital Ocean, or Hetzner) to an automated Node Pilot ecosystem on Hetzner Cloud.
- [Generic Build a VPS Guide](https://docs.constellationnetwork.io/run-a-node/validator-node-guides/build-your-node/generic-build-a-vps-guide.md): This is a generic guide created to assist you in building a Constellation Network validator node.
- [Cloud Provider Specific](https://docs.constellationnetwork.io/run-a-node/validator-node-guides/build-your-node/cloud-provider-specific.md)
- [Build AWS EC2 Instance](https://docs.constellationnetwork.io/run-a-node/validator-node-guides/build-your-node/cloud-provider-specific/build-aws-ec2-instance.md): Amazon Web Services Specific Build Process
- [Build DigitalOcean Droplet](https://docs.constellationnetwork.io/run-a-node/validator-node-guides/build-your-node/cloud-provider-specific/build-digitalocean-droplet.md): Digital Ocean Specific Build Process
- [Build Hetzner Server](https://docs.constellationnetwork.io/run-a-node/validator-node-guides/build-your-node/cloud-provider-specific/build-hetzner-server.md): Build a Hetzner specific Cloud Resource Server
- [First Time Connection Guide](https://docs.constellationnetwork.io/run-a-node/validator-node-guides/build-your-node/first-time-connection-guide.md): How to connect to a brand new VPS created by using one of the Constellation Network VPS build guides.
- [Turn your VPS into a Node](https://docs.constellationnetwork.io/run-a-node/validator-node-guides/build-your-node/turn-your-vps-into-a-node.md): This guide will help you create your node using nodectl.
- [Node Prerequisites](https://docs.constellationnetwork.io/run-a-node/validator-node-guides/build-your-node/turn-your-vps-into-a-node/node-prerequisites.md): This document suggests what steps you should have in place before you begin to turn a VPS into a Constellation Network Validator Node.
- [Quick Install Guide](https://docs.constellationnetwork.io/run-a-node/validator-node-guides/build-your-node/turn-your-vps-into-a-node/quick-install-guide.md): Turn your VPS into a node using quick install guide
- [Normal Install Guide](https://docs.constellationnetwork.io/run-a-node/validator-node-guides/build-your-node/turn-your-vps-into-a-node/normal-install-guide.md): Turn your VPS into a node using a normal installation.
- [Manual Installation](https://docs.constellationnetwork.io/run-a-node/validator-node-guides/build-your-node/turn-your-vps-into-a-node/manual-installation.md): Manually download all the elements needed to run a node for advanced Node Operators.
- [Authorize to Join Hypergraph or metagaph](https://docs.constellationnetwork.io/run-a-node/validator-node-guides/build-your-node/authorize-to-join-hypergraph-or-metagaph.md)


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