BTCD Kube provides a simple way to deploy a full bitcoin node with BTCD into Kubernetes.

This project is confirmed to work for simnet, testnet and mainnet on a minikube instance and a gke instance.

This project implements a full bitcoin node running in Kubernetes using https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd deployed by Jenkins X.

The Lightning Kube project gives a better high level view of how to install a fully functional Lightning Node.

To install this project:

Requirments:

- Running Kubernetes cluster
- Jenkins X Executable installation
- Jenkins X instance running on Kubernetes cluster

*See Lightning Kube for help with requirements.

1. Clone this project and the jx environment projects.

git clone https://github.com/kevinstl/btcd-kube ~/Developer/projects/btcd-kube
git clone https://github.com/kevinstl/environment-jx-lightning-kube-simnet
git clone https://github.com/kevinstl/environment-jx-lightning-kube-testnet
git clone https://github.com/kevinstl/environment-jx-lightning-kube-mainnet

2. Change to project directory cd ~/Developer/projects/btcd-kube
3. Change the following variables in the Jenkinsfile to match your setup: ORG, APP_NAME, GITHUB_ADDRESS and ENV_REPO_PREFIX.
4. Change to scripts directory cd ~/Developer/projects/btcd-kube/scripts
5. Add your persistent volume claim: ./create-pv.sh "" lightning-kube-mainnet -mainnet mainnet 275Gi gke
6. Add your secrets: ./create-secrets.sh minikube lightning-kube mainnet YOUR_MINING_ADDRESS YOUR_RPC_USER YOUR_RPC_PASSWORD
7. Import this project and the jx environment projects into your Jenkins X instance. jx import

If the installation is successful you should see the btcd pod running from kubernetes dashboard.