The purpose of the project is to simplify the process of launching a private Ethereum cluster, with the main use case which is testing Ethereum protocol modifications, private Dapp testing or for running a private blockchain.
Features:
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supports Parity or Geth
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run different versions in same cluster
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fast sync or full sync mode
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blockchain monitoring tools
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cluster monitoring tools
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scheduled operations over the cluster (backup, restore, etc)
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secure access
You need Docker to build container images, download Docker for your platform: https://www.docker.com/products/overview
Currently EtherKube is being tested against Google Cloud Container, and you have to download latest Gcloud SDK tool from https://cloud.google.com/sdk/downloads
Then install Kubernetes command line client:
gcloud components install kubectl
You need Rust compiler and Cargo tool to build Etherkube command line utility. Most simple way would be to install Rustup from https://www.rustup.rs/, which will install and will help you to manage all required Rust components.
To start you have to create a new Google Cloud project with a Cloud Containers cluster.
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Google Cloud - https://console.cloud.google.com
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Cloud Containers (GKE) - https://console.cloud.google.com/kubernetes/list?project=
For Google Cloud project Id is my_project_id and a Cloud Container Cluster named test-cluster-1 run following:
cp etherekube-config.samle.yaml etherekube-config.yaml vim etherekube-config.yaml ./bin/etherkube init