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Open code at GitHub & how to setup your local Power_testnet

Power Rover
Power DCloud
4 min readAug 13, 2018

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The Power Guide How to setup local Power_testnet

We are pleased to announce:

  1. Our code is public at GitHub. Go ahead — check it, analyze it.

2. We prepared a guide for you on how to deploy your local Power_testnet.

https://github.com/thepower/snapshot

What does it give to you

  1. You’ll setup a virtual machine. VirtualBox (Windows, macOS) and Parallels (macOS) were tested by the team.
  2. There is Linux within the virtual machine with automatically installed all necessary tools for local testnet launch. For the test build, we used Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
  3. You’ll run 3 shards with 3 nodes in each (9 nodes at all) with interchain interaction implemented.

Thanks to that, you will explore our BFT-like own algorithm of consensus Resonance and cross-chain transactions between shards.

All you need — just to follow our simple and friendly guide written below.

Notes:

  • This guide is developed and tested on macOS, Windows 10, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It should work in any other OS supported by Vagrant
  • As soon as you deploy the testnet you are able to use all available at the moment API features described in details in our wiki: http://thepower.io/doc/api
  • You don’t need to get and use ThePower.io Smart Key (SK) tokens — it’s you local testnet

Disclaimer

Please be aware all the code published on The Power GitHub is the intellectual property of The Power. You can use this code to explore and test the code in your local Power_testnet only.

❗ ️This code is published for non-commercial purposes!

Guidelines

Prerequisites

1. In case you are using macOS, you may need a ‘Homebrew’ package manager to install ‘vagrant’. You can install ‘brew’ using the following command in terminal:

Of course, you could use any other known method of prerequisites installation. To get more information about the ‘Homebrew’ package manager search on its official website: https://brew.sh/

2. Install vagrant. Also, you need have installed a virtual machine at this step. We tested ‘vagrant’ with ‘Virtual Box’ and ‘Parallels’ on macOS. You can install ‘vagrant’ on macOS using the following command in terminal:

3. In case you’re using parallels virtual machine, you should install vagrant plugin:

4. In case you’re using virtualbox, you should modify your PATH environment:

5. We use the hostmanager vagrant plugin to change /etc/hosts file on a host system. Please, install this plugin:

Testnet Setup

1. Creating a directory:

2. Get into that directory:

3. Download prepared bundle which contains: Vagrantfile, scripts for managing testnet and testnet configuration files

At this step, you will use an only Vagrant file from this bundle. If you haven’t the ‘wget’ command you can download the file using any other method. For example, you can download it using a web browser and put it to created on the previous step the directory ‘thepower’.

4. Unpack which was downloaded:

At this step, you have the Vagrantfile and testnet management script and configs in the current directory. Now, you should set up a virtual machine with the appropriate environment from the Vagrantfile.

5. It configures a virtual machine:

6. The first virtual machine run requires a reboot:

7. Start it again:

8. Getting inside the VM:

If you were asked a password you should type ‘vagrant’ as the password.

9. Do the same as 1–4 but with other files inside a virtual machine:

At this point, you have script testnet2.sh and testnet configs in a current directory inside the virtual machine.

Also, you have configured /etc/hosts file on your host machine (vagrant added pwr.local domain) and installed correct versions of dependencies.

10. Download latest version of thepower node software:

11. Start the testnet:

12. Wait for some time (5 seconds would be enough).

13. Check everything is launched in a proper way with the command ‘netstat’, which one shows all needed ports are open. You should see 9 different ports. These ports are API ports of the power nodes:

14. This is example of a call to one of the nodes API:

Every node in testnet listens to it’s own port and provide API. You should have all nodes API port numbers on your screen after step 13.

You can use curl to access the API from command line (inside or outside the VM):

Or you can use your browser on host system to call this APIs (domain pwr.local is already added to your /etc/hosts by vagrant-hostmanager plugin).

Congrats! Your Power_testnet is launched successfully! 👏

Now you could use all API functions following this wiki:

http://thepower.io/doc/api

If you need to update your software to the latest version, you have to run the command below thus you’ll get the latest version of software:

You have to run it within VM (you’ll get into VM via command ‘vagrant ssh’)

Dear developers!

You a more than welcome to share your experience while you test Power_testnet. Your feedback, questions and proposals are very important to us.

Let’s turn on The Power! ⚡️

Don’t hesitate to ask us your questions and give your feedback via email (info@thepower.io) and Telegram (https://t.me/thepower_dev).

Useful resources:

We provide close access to our testnet to early adopters and partners by request (pm us in Telegram or send e-mail on info@thepower.io)

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