Merge pull request #1871 from tendermint/1774-remove-init-testnet-script

remove init_testnet script

docs/deploy-testnets.md

@@ -23,11 +23,12 @@ Here are the steps to setting up a testnet manually:
 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 `26656`. 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
+    `tendermint node --proxy_app=kvstore --p2p.persistent_peers=< peer
+    addresses >` on each node, where `< peer addresses >` is a comma separated
+    list of the ID@IP:PORT combination for each node. The default port for
+    Tendermint is `26656`. The ID of a node can be obtained by running
+    `tendermint show_node_id` command. 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:
 
 
@@ -37,18 +38,22 @@ 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.md).
 
-But wait! Steps 3 and 4 are quite manual. Instead, use [this
-script](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/develop/docs/examples/init_testnet.sh),
-which does the heavy lifting for you. And it gets better.
-
-Instead of the previously linked script to initialize the files required
-for a testnet, we have the `tendermint testnet` command. By default,
-running `tendermint testnet` will create all the required files, just
-like the script. Of course, you'll still need to manually edit some
-fields in the `config.toml`. Alternatively, see the available flags to
-auto-populate the `config.toml` with the fields that would otherwise be
-passed in via flags when running `tendermint node`. As you might
-imagine, this command is useful for manual or automated deployments.
+But wait! Steps 3, 4 and 5 are quite manual. Instead, use the `tendermint
+testnet` command. By default, running `tendermint testnet` will create all the
+required files, but it won't populate the list of persistent peers. It will do
+it however if you provide the `--populate-persistent-peers` flag and optional
+`--starting-ip-address` flag. Run `tendermint testnet --help` for more details
+on the available flags.
+
+```
+tendermint testnet --populate-persistent-peers --starting-ip-address 192.168.0.1
+```
+
+This command will generate four folders, prefixed with "node" and put them into
+the "./mytestnet" directory by default.
+
+As you might imagine, this command is useful for manual or automated
+deployments.
 
 ## Automated Deployments
 

docs/examples/init_testnet.sh

@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# make all the files
-tendermint init --home ./tester/node0
-tendermint init --home ./tester/node1
-tendermint init --home ./tester/node2
-tendermint init --home ./tester/node3
-
-file0=./tester/node0/config/genesis.json
-file1=./tester/node1/config/genesis.json
-file2=./tester/node2/config/genesis.json
-file3=./tester/node3/config/genesis.json
-
-genesis_time=`cat $file0 | jq '.genesis_time'`
-chain_id=`cat $file0 | jq '.chain_id'`
-
-value0=`cat $file0 | jq '.validators[0].pub_key.value'`
-value1=`cat $file1 | jq '.validators[0].pub_key.value'`
-value2=`cat $file2 | jq '.validators[0].pub_key.value'`
-value3=`cat $file3 | jq '.validators[0].pub_key.value'`
-
-rm $file0
-rm $file1
-rm $file2
-rm $file3
-
-echo "{
-  \"genesis_time\": $genesis_time,
-  \"chain_id\": $chain_id,
-  \"validators\": [
-    {
-     \"pub_key\": {
-       \"type\": \"tendermint/PubKeyEd25519\",
-       \"value\": $value0
-     },
-      \"power:\": 10,
-      \"name\":, \"\"
-    },
-    {
-     \"pub_key\": {
-       \"type\": \"tendermint/PubKeyEd25519\",
-       \"value\": $value1
-     },
-      \"power:\": 10,
-      \"name\":, \"\"
-    },
-    {
-     \"pub_key\": {
-       \"type\": \"tendermint/PubKeyEd25519\",
-       \"value\": $value2
-     },
-      \"power:\": 10,
-      \"name\":, \"\"
-    },
-    {
-     \"pub_key\": {
-       \"type\": \"tendermint/PubKeyEd25519\",
-       \"value\": $value3
-     },
-      \"power:\": 10,
-      \"name\":, \"\"
-    }
-   ],
-   \"app_hash\": \"\"
-}" >> $file0
-
-cp $file0 $file1
-cp $file0 $file2
-cp $file2 $file3