Orchestrating Stellar deployments on Kubernetes w/ Helm

[todkap]

Proposed Table of Contents

• Background of Stellar @andrenarchy
• Existing ways to deploy Stellar ( Docker Compose and Docker All-in-One Image) - me
• Setting up Helm - me
• Creation of a Service Account - me
• Pointer to GitHub README for Cloud Provider specific set up @andrenarchy (need to add me as contributor)
  • IBM Block Storage will be covered there.
• Generating nodeSeed - me
• Helm install of stellar core (walk through of key overrides) @andrenarchy
• Verifying stellar core has achieved consensus @andrenarchy
• Installing Horizon Helm Chart (walk through of key overrides) @andrenarchy
• Validating Horizon Core is ready to handle requests @andrenarchy
• Demonstrate how to access Horizon APIs via Ingress -me
• Simple test with Friendbot to demonstrate Account Creation works as expected (K8 nodes are synching properly with Testnet and we can see the newly created account) -me

[todkap]

Another thing to consider (and I will test this locally) is the demo script I used for testing Docker Compose Testnet works with the K8 Helm charts. https://github.com/todkap/stellar-testnet/blob/master/demo/index.js

[todkap]

Is Friendbot helm chart ready for me to try on IBM Cloud? @andrenarchy

[todkap]

Verified that my local demo script is working when pointing to IKS deployment. testrun.txt

Example account from the test script http://stellar-satoshipay.us-south.containers.appdomain.cloud/accounts/GBH55BJF6GANURIPAYGQVAYUMQ6HCOM4J2JTPLDUUNUDHSZY36Q42HX6

[todkap]

Draft article https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RbGALNy-GBAo49eTDomOUOqFvn7bO2SDsVEu_kMTPlg/edit?usp=sharing

[todkap]

@andrenarchy Can you review the draft and comment in the issue? I no longer have access to my Ibm email

[todkap]

We can mark this complete. https://itnext.io/how-to-deploy-a-stellar-validator-on-kubernetes-with-helm-a111e5dfe437