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Deploy Kusama Validator
Deploy Kusama Node
The following manifest describes Kusama node that syncs Kusama relay chain network: kusama, in archive mode pruning: false, and uses Parity Polkadot client:
By default, Validator nodes are in archive mode, but Kotal requires that node explicitly mark the node as archive node by setting pruning: false.
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
kusama-node-0 1/1 Running 0 1m
kubectl logs -f kusama-node-0
2021-10-18 15:32:38 ----------------------------
2021-10-18 15:32:38 This chain is not in any way
2021-10-18 15:32:38 endorsed by the
2021-10-18 15:32:38 KUSAMA FOUNDATION
2021-10-18 15:32:38 ----------------------------
2021-10-18 15:32:38 Parity Polkadot
2021-10-18 15:32:38 βοΈ version 0.9.11-bfd38ed62-x86_64-linux-gnu
2021-10-18 15:32:38 β€οΈ by Parity Technologies <admin@parity.io>, 2017-2021
2021-10-18 15:32:38 π Chain specification: Kusama
2021-10-18 15:32:38 π· Node name: validator-node-sample
2021-10-18 15:32:38 π€ Role: AUTHORITY
2021-10-18 15:32:38 πΎ Database: RocksDb at /polkadot/kotal-data/chains/ksmcc3/db/full
2021-10-18 15:32:38 β Native runtime: kusama-9110 (parity-kusama-0.tx7.au2)
2021-10-18 15:32:38 π¨ Initializing Genesis block/state (state: 0xb000β¦ef6b, header-hash: 0xb0a8β¦dafe)
2021-10-18 15:32:38 π΄ Loading GRANDPA authority set from genesis on what appears to be first startup.
2021-10-18 15:32:39 β± Loaded block-time = 6s from block 0xb0a8d493285c2df73290dfb7e61f870f17b41801197a149ca93654499ea3dafe
2021-10-18 15:32:39 πΆ Creating empty BABE epoch changes on what appears to be first startup.
2021-10-18 15:32:39 π· Local node identity is: 12D3KooWFEHU9FXqGCL6ify4rqcon31WYViCnUfA6aVYTjRXqJ5F
2021-10-18 15:32:39 π¦ Highest known block at #0
2021-10-18 15:32:39 γ½οΈ Prometheus exporter started at 0.0.0.0:9615
2021-10-18 15:32:39 Listening for new connections on 127.0.0.1:9944.
2021-10-18 15:32:39 πΆ Starting BABE Authorship worker
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