This is a Kurtosis package that spins up a non-staking Avalanche node. By default, this package works locally over Docker but can also be deployed on Kubernetes if so desired. You may optionally specify the number of nodes you wish to start locally with a simple arg passed in at execution time.

Open the Kurtosis playground and run:

kurtosis run github.com/kurtosis-tech/avalanche-package

To run it locally, install Kurtosis and run the same.

To blow away the created enclave, run kurtosis clean -a.

You can configure this package using the following JSON structure (keys and default values):

{
    "dont_start_subnets": false,
    "is_elastic": false,
    "ephemeral_ports": true,
    "avalanchego_image": "avaplatform/avalanchego:v1.10.1-Subnet-EVM-master",
    "node_config": {
        "network-id": "1337",
        "staking-enabled": false,
        "health-check-frequency": "5s"
    },
    "node_count": 5,
    "min_cpu": 0,
    "min_memory": 0,
    "vm_name": "testNet",
    "chain_name": "testChain",
    "custom_subnet_vm_path": "",
    "custom_subnet_vm_url": "",
    "subnet_genesis_json": "github.com/kurtosis-tech/avalanche-package/static_files/genesis.json"
}

For example: Running:

kurtosis run github.com/kurtosis-tech/avalanche-package '{"node_count":3}'

will spin up 3 non-stacking Avalanche nodes locally.

NOTE: Passing arguments as JSON string to the CLI might be to cumbersome. You can use the following syntax too kurtosis run . "$(cat args.json)". There's an args.json at the root of the project that you can use. It has the defaults set so feel free to tweak it.

By default Kurtosis runs the subnet chain with the genesis.json at static_files/genesis.json. To bring your own genesis.json you should -

1. Clone the repository
2. Replace that file with the right values
3. Run the package with kurtosis run . to ensure that you are running local code
4. Optionally you can publish this to a fork and use that with kurtosis run passing a remote GitHub path

By updating the genesis.json you can change the initial allocations, chain id, gas configuration and a lot of other config

Various different precompiles can also be configured by bringing your own genesis.json

Use the {"ephemeral_ports": false} argument to get fixed ports, rpc ports will be on 9650, 9652, 9654 and so on while non staking ports will be on 9651, 9653, 9655 and so on.

Kurtosis packages can be composed inside other Kurtosis packages. Assuming you want to spin up an Avalanche node and your own service together, you just need to do the following in your own package:

# First, import this package by adding the following to the top of your package's Starlark file:
this_package = import_module("github.com/kurtosis-tech/avalanche-package/main.star")

Then, call the this package's run function later in your package's Starlark script:

this_package_output = this_package.run(plan, args)

By using the subnet_genesis_json argument you can pass the url of a genesis.json in your own package to use a different genesis file for the subnet.

To run this on Kubernetes you need to configure your CLI to work with Kubernetes using this guide

Further the chain rpc url that gets printed at the end won't be directly accessible as the IP address printed there is internal to K8S; you will have to replace the URL slightly like given the following input -

http://172.16.5.3:9650/ext/bc/2hzMp2mNsBpCHRMkyaM6gR1tgeV4sTGuDx8WD2uG5LwTEPfpZe/rpc

Keep everything but replace the ip address with 127.0.0.1 and the port 9650 with any of the rpc ports listed in kurtosis enclave inspect. As an example

========================================== User Services ==========================================
UUID           Name      Ports                                  Status
426da692eea4   builder   <none>                                 RUNNING
09d0bbc70f9b   node-0    rpc: 9650/tcp -> 127.0.0.1:61837       RUNNING
                         staking: 9651/tcp -> 127.0.0.1:61838
cd172a584033   node-1    rpc: 9650/tcp -> 127.0.0.1:61839       RUNNING
                         staking: 9651/tcp -> 127.0.0.1:61840
0d6a4daf23ee   node-2    rpc: 9650/tcp -> 127.0.0.1:61834       RUNNING
                         staking: 9651/tcp -> 127.0.0.1:61835

The final url would look like http://127.0.0.1:61834/ext/bc/2hzMp2mNsBpCHRMkyaM6gR1tgeV4sTGuDx8WD2uG5LwTEPfpZe/rpc

1. Install Kurtosis
2. Clone this repo
3. For your dev loop, run kurtosis clean -a && kurtosis run . inside the repo directory