Deploy Public Rinkeby Node

Deploy Rinkeby Node

Rinkeby is a Proof of Authority public Ethereum test network, used by developers to test their dApps.

The following manifest describes an Ethereum node that joins rinkeby network network: rinkeby, and uses Hyperledger Besu client client: besu:

rinkeby.yaml

apiVersion: ethereum.kotal.io/v1alpha1
kind: Node
metadata:
  name: rinkeby-besu-node
spec:
  network: rinkeby
  client: besu

Joining any Ethereum network is as easy as setting node's spec.network value, which accepts values like mainnet, rinkeby, goerli, xdai ... etc. After the node is created, you can't change spec.network.

Apply rinkeby.yaml manifest:

kubectl apply -f rinkeby.yaml

Kotal operator will notice your rinkeby-besu-node and will create all the necessary pods, persistent volumes, services, configmaps, and secrets neccessary.

You can fetch the deployed Ethereum Node using:

kubectl get nodes.ethereum

It will return an output similar to the following:

NAME                 CLIENT   Consensus   Network
rinkeby-besu-node    besu     poa         rinkeby

Fetch Node Logs

Get the pods that has been created by Kotal for the node:

kubectl get pods

It will return an output similar to the following:

NAME                  READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
rinkeby-besu-node-0   1/1     Running   0          1m

If pod STATUS is Pending, most probably it's due to not enough cpu and memory, because Kotal allocates lots of cpu cores and memory for public nodes. The required node resources can be changed using spec.resources.cpu, spec.resources.memory, and spec.resources.storage.

Get the logs of the running node:

kubectl logs -f rinkeby-besu-node-0

Call JSON-RPC Method

Let's update our node by enabling JSON-RPC HTTP server:

rinkeby.yaml

apiVersion: ethereum.kotal.io/v1alpha1
kind: Node
metadata:
  name: rinkeby-besu-node
spec:
  network: rinkeby
  client: besu
  rpc: true

Kotal defaults node missing spec parameters like:

• JSON-RPC HTTP server port is defaulted to 8545.

• JSON-RPC HTTP server enabled modules are defaulted to: eth, net, and web3.

• Blocks Synchronization mode is defauled to fast in public networks.

For a comprehensive reference on Ethereum Node and default spec parameter values, check our ethereum reference

Apply the new version of rinkeby.yaml:

kubectl apply -f rinkeby.yaml

Forward localhost:8545 calls to the node pod:

kubectl port-forward rinkeby-besu-node-0 8545

In another terminal window call eth_syncing JSON-RPC method

curl -X POST -H 'content-type: application/json' --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_syncing","params":[],"id":32}' http://127.0.0.1:8545

You will get JSON result similar to the following:

{
  "jsonrpc" : "2.0",
  "id" : 32,
  "result" : {
    "startingBlock" : "0x0",
    "currentBlock" : "0x1518",
    "highestBlock" : "0x9567a3",
    "pulledStates" : "0x203ca",
    "knownStates" : "0x200636"
  }
}

Finally you can delete the node by:

kubectl delete -f rinkeby.yaml

node.ethereum.kotal.io "rinkeby-besu-node" deleted

Kubernetes garbage collector will delete all the resources that has been created by Kotal Ethereum Node controller.