test-network.md

Test Network Locally

Before you join the main Bacalhau network, you can test locally.

To test, you can use the bacalhau devstack command, which offers a way to get a 3 node cluster running locally.

export PREDICTABLE_API_PORT=1
bacalhau devstack

{% hint style="info" %} By settings PREDICTABLE_API_PORT=1 , the first node of our 3 node cluster will always listen on port 20000 {% endhint %}

In another window, export the following environment variables so that the Bacalhau client binary connects to our local development cluster:

export BACALHAU_API_HOST=127.0.0.1
export BACALHAU_API_PORT=20000

You can now interact with Bacalhau - all jobs are running by the local devstack cluster.

bacalhau docker run ubuntu echo hello
bacalhau list