samparsky / kotal

Blockchain Operator

Kotal Operator

Kotal operator is cloud agnostic blockchain deployer that make it easy to deploy highly available, self-managing, self-healing blockchain infrastructure (networks, nodes, storage clusters ...) on any cloud.

What can I do with Kotal Operator ?

• Create ipfs storage cluster and swarms
• Deploy highly available blokchain networks and nodes
• Join public networks like Ethereum or Bitcoin Mainnet
• Join test networks like Rinkeby, Ropsten or Goerli
• Launch your own validator node
• Launch your own baking node
• Create and join private consortium networks

Kubernetes Custom Resources

Kotal extended kubernetes with custom resources in different API groups.

Resource	Description	API Group	Status
Ethereum	Create and join private and public ethereum networks	ethereum.kotal.io/v1alpha1	alpha
Ethereum 2.0	Create validator and beacon chain nodes	ethereum2.kotal.io/v1alpha1	coming soon 🚀
IPFS	Create and join ipfs storage cluster and swarms	ipfs.kotal.io/v1alpha1	alpha

Example

Check config/samples directory for more examples

Network of a single node that will join and sync rinkeby blockchain:

apiVersion: ethereum.kotal.io/v1alpha1
kind: Network
metadata:
  name: my-network
spec:
  join: rinkeby
  nodes:
    - name: node-1
      rpc: true
      rpcAPI:
        - web3
        - net
        - eth

Requiremenets

• Access to kubernetes cluster v1.11+
• cert-manager v0.15+

Quick Start

For development purposes, we recommend KinD (Kubernetes in Docker) to create kubernetes clusters and tear down kubernetes clusters in seconds

kind create cluster

after the cluster is up and running, install cert-manager

kubectl apply --validate=false -f https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager/releases/download/v0.16.0/cert-manager.yaml

Install kotal to the kind cluster.

make kind IMG=kotal/operator:0.1

This command will run the tests, build the docker image, load it into kind and deploy the operator.

Apply any of the examples in config/samples directory and watch magic happens 🎩

kubectl apply -f config/samples/ipfs/ipfs_v1alpha1_swarm.yaml

this sample will create an ipfs storage swarm of 3 nodes.

Finally, tear down the cluster

kind delete cluster

Documentation

Kotal documentation is available here

Contact

• Slack kotal.slack.com
• website kotal.co
• twitter @kotalco
• github github.com/kotalco
• email [e-mail]

Contriubuting

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Licensing

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