- Deploy a Testnet
- ================
-
- Now that we've seen how ABCI works, and even played with a few
- applications on a single validator node, it's time to deploy a test
- network to four validator nodes.
-
- Manual Deployments
- ------------------
-
- It's relatively easy to setup a Tendermint cluster manually. The only
- requirements for a particular Tendermint node are a private key for the
- validator, stored as ``priv_validator.json``, a node key, stored as
- ``node_key.json`` and a list of the public keys of all validators, stored as
- ``genesis.json``. These files should be stored in ``~/.tendermint/config``, or
- wherever the ``$TMHOME`` variable might be set to.
-
- Here are the steps to setting up a testnet manually:
-
- 1) Provision nodes on your cloud provider of choice
- 2) Install Tendermint and the application of interest on all nodes
- 3) Generate a private key and a node key for each validator using
- ``tendermint init``
- 4) Compile a list of public keys for each validator into a
- ``genesis.json`` file and replace the existing file with it.
- 5) Run ``tendermint node --proxy_app=kvstore --p2p.persistent_peers=< peer addresses >`` on each node,
- where ``< peer addresses >`` is a comma separated list of the IP:PORT
- combination for each node. The default port for Tendermint is
- ``46656``. Thus, if the IP addresses of your nodes were
- ``192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3, 192.168.0.4``, the command
- would look like:
- ``tendermint node --proxy_app=kvstore --p2p.persistent_peers=96663a3dd0d7b9d17d4c8211b191af259621c693@192.168.0.1:46656, 429fcf25974313b95673f58d77eacdd434402665@192.168.0.2:46656, 0491d373a8e0fcf1023aaf18c51d6a1d0d4f31bd@192.168.0.3:46656, f9baeaa15fedf5e1ef7448dd60f46c01f1a9e9c4@192.168.0.4:46656``.
-
- After a few seconds, all the nodes should connect to each other and start
- making blocks! For more information, see the Tendermint Networks section
- of `the guide to using Tendermint <using-tendermint.html>`__.
-
- While the manual deployment is easy enough, an automated deployment is
- usually quicker. The below examples show different tools that can be used
- for automated deployments.
-
- Automated Deployments
- ---------------------
-
- Local
- ^^^^^
-
- With ``docker`` installed, run the command:
-
- ::
-
- make localnet-start
-
- from the root of the tendermint repository. This will spin up a 4-node local testnet.
-
- Cloud Deployment using Kubernetes
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- The `mintnet-kubernetes tool <https://github.com/tendermint/tools/tree/master/mintnet-kubernetes>`__
- allows automating the deployment of a Tendermint network on an already
- provisioned Kubernetes cluster. For simple provisioning of a Kubernetes
- cluster, check out the `Google Cloud Platform <https://cloud.google.com/>`__.
-
- Cloud Deployment using Terraform and Ansible
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- See the `next section <./terraform-and-ansible.html>`__ for details.
-
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