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From: Mostafa Farghaly <mostafa@kotal.co>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:27:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] deploy polkadot node

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+## Deploy Polkadot Node
+
+The following manifest describes a Polkadot node that syncs Polkadot relay chain `network: polkadot`, enables HTTP JSON-RPC server `rpc: true` on custom port `rpcPort: 8888`, and uses [Parity Polkadot](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot) client:
+
+{% code title="polkadot.yaml" %}
+```yaml
+apiVersion: polkadot.kotal.io/v1alpha1
+kind: Node
+metadata:
+  name: polkadot-node
+spec:
+  network: rinkeby
+  rpc: true
+  rpcPort: 8888
+```
+{% endcode %}
+
+Apply `polkadot.yaml` manifest:
+
+```bash
+kubectl apply -f polkadot.yaml
+```
+
+Kotal operator will notice your `polkadot-node` and will create all the necessary pods, persistent volumes, services, configmaps, and secrets neccessary.
+
+You can fetch the deployed Polkadot `Node` using:
+
+```bash
+kubectl get nodes.polkadot
+```
+It will return an output similar to the following:
+
+```bash
+NAME             NETWORK     VALIDATOR
+polkadot-node    polkadot    fasle
+```
+
+## Fetch Node Logs
+
+
+Apply `rinkeby.yaml` manifest:
+
+```bash
+kubectl apply -f rinkeby.yaml
+```
+
+Kotal operator will notice your `polkadot-node` and will create all the necessary pods, persistent volumes, services, configmaps, and secrets neccessary.
+
+You can fetch the deployed Polkadot `Node` using:
+
+```bash
+kubectl get nodes.polkadot
+```
+It will return an output similar to the following:
+
+```bash
+NAME                 CLIENT   Consensus   Network
+polkadot-node        besu     poa         rinkeby
+```
+
+## Fetch Node Logs
+
+Get the pods that has been created by Kotal for the node:
+
+```bash
+kubectl get pods
+```
+
+It will return an output similar to the following:
+
+```bash
+NAME                  READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
+polkadot-node-0       1/1     Running   0          1m
+```
+
+Get the logs of the running node:
+
+```bash
+kubectl logs -f polkadot-node-0
+```
+
+It will return node logs similar to the following:
+
+```
+2021-10-17 22:15:12 Parity Polkadot
+2021-10-17 22:15:12 ✌️  version 0.9.11-bfd38ed62-x86_64-linux-gnu
+2021-10-17 22:15:12 ❤️  by Parity Technologies <admin@parity.io>, 2017-2021
+2021-10-17 22:15:12 📋 Chain specification: Polkadot
+2021-10-17 22:15:12 🏷 Node name: polkadot-node
+2021-10-17 22:15:12 👤 Role: FULL
+2021-10-17 22:15:12 💾 Database: RocksDb at /polkadot/kotal-data/chains/polkadot/db/full
+2021-10-17 22:15:12 ⛓  Native runtime: polkadot-9110 (parity-polkadot-0.tx8.au0)
+2021-10-17 22:15:12 🔨 Initializing Genesis block/state (state: 0x29d0…4e17, header-hash: 0x91b1…90c3)
+2021-10-17 22:15:12 👴 Loading GRANDPA authority set from genesis on what appears to be first startup.
+2021-10-17 22:15:13 ⏱  Loaded block-time = 6s from block 0x91b171bb158e2d3848fa23a9f1c25182fb8e20313b2c1eb49219da7a70ce90c3
+2021-10-17 22:15:13 👶 Creating empty BABE epoch changes on what appears to be first startup.
+2021-10-17 22:15:13 🏷 Local node identity is: 12D3KooWRo3vvfgPdsJ44tXu1Y2GeFNmC9ror2HsdJjvSjEcfZdw
+2021-10-17 22:15:13 📦 Highest known block at #0
+2021-10-17 22:15:13 Listening for new connections on 127.0.0.1:9944.
+2021-10-17 22:15:13 🔍 Discovered new external address for our node: /ip4/102.189.29.174/tcp/30333/ws/p2p/12D3KooWRo3vvfgPdsJ44tXu1Y2GeFNmC9ror2HsdJjvSjEcfZdw
+2021-10-17 22:15:18 ⚙️  Syncing, target=#7304424 (1 peers), best: #64 (0x4983…1114), finalized #0 (0x91b1…90c3), ⬇ 37.0kiB/s ⬆ 17.6kiB/s
+```
+
+## Call JSON-RPC Method
+
+Forward localhost:8888 calls to the node pod because `rpcPort: 8888`:
+
+```bash
+kubectl port-forward polkadot-node-0 8888
+```
+
+In another terminal window call `eth_getBlock` JSON-RPC method to get the latest synced block:
+
+```bash
+curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"id":1, "jsonrpc":"2.0", "method": "chain_getBlock", "params": []}' 0.0.0.0:8888
+```
+
+You will get JSON result similar to the following:
+
+```JSON
+{
+  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
+  "result": {
+    "block": {
+      "extrinsics": [
+        "0x280403000be06ab2527201",
+        "0x14040a00912e",
+        "0x1004140000"
+      ],
+      "header": {
+        "digest": {
+          "logs": [
+            "0x0642414245b501030000000042eacc0f00000000f414617b1dbce8671e029af90ae45c4b51d2f8d77d7876ae5f19dd42b7cb213775f40642dc2d86dd0a16169008e2d8735c849d7113da468be33b1c85819310024daffbee165156a2c17919fdc592754960a5587b6affc81f3e9c260364da2200",
+            "0x054241424501019243678a110c1271c784ba9abaf03e08ae635ea766ce953853bfb1e3c0f70b5c95907240de74e57aa379c8428cd9933f097e32f9ef82caf261277ba4dc573b8b"
+          ]
+        },
+        "extrinsicsRoot": "0xd9c14a96f36005ef6487ff56cb4722ff64afa3535cb1464c988767084094566c",
+        "number": "0xba7",
+        "parentHash": "0xcfb74aa6750036482897f63806191b3b14447186e45f69c43fcb72e02b57871f",
+        "stateRoot": "0x5116aa11f10b1b1ce7c05ea85de08238b7db4c2c485bc88a9167e3b0a153368b"
+      }
+    },
+    "justifications": null
+  },
+  "id": 1
+}
+```
+
+Finally you can delete the node by:
+
+```bash
+kubectl delete -f polkadot.yaml
+
+node.polkadot.kotal.io "polkadot-node" deleted
+```
+
+Kubernetes garbage collector will delete all the resources that has been created by Kotal Polkadot `Node` controller.
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