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Deploy IPFS peer

Deploy Peer

peer.yaml
apiVersion: ipfs.kotal.io/v1alpha1
kind: Peer
metadata:
  name: simple-peer
spec: {}

This is a simple ipfs peer that joins the public ipfs swarm, and will starts with the all default settings that's similar to running ipfs init then ipfs daemon on your machine.

Let's deploy the peer:

kubectl apply -f peer.yaml

Kotal operator will notice your simple-peer and will create all the necessary pods, persistent volumes, services, configmaps, and secrets.

kubectl get peers

It will return an output similar to the following:

NAME          CLIENT
simple-peer   go-ipfs

Fetch Peer Logs

Get the pods created for the peer:

kubectl get pods

It will return an output similar to the following:

Check the logs of the running peer:

You'll get output similar to the following:

Your peer is up and running and ready to receive api calls.

Read file Using IPFS HTTP API

Let's forward localhost:5001 calls to simple-peer:5001

In another terminal window, send http api call using cURL:

You'll get the following output:

You can also view ipfs webui by visiting http://0.0.0.0:5001/webui

Finally, delete the ipfs peer:

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

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