Developer Kit Deployment - System Requirements and Prerequisites
Minikube
System Requirements
| Components | Description |
|---|---|
| Operating System | Apple® macOS® 12.x |
| Linux Ubuntu® 16.x, 20.x | |
| Processor Architecture | 64-bit (AMD64, x86-64) |
| Minikube | 1.28 or newer |
| CPUs | 4 CPU (8 CPU with ELK) |
| Memory | 16 GB (22 GB with ELK) |
| Disk Size | 200 GB or more |
Note: We do not currently support VMware Blockchain on Apple's M1 and ARM64 processor. We are working on adding support for this and will update the documentation when it's available.
Prerequisites
Install the following
kubectl ( https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/ )
helm chart ( https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/ )
Minikube (https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/)
Make sure Minikube is running with required configs as presented above. To test, you may run
minikube status
minikube config view
Amazon EKS
System Requirements
The below system configurations ensures a high performant blockchain with 670 TPS.
| Components | Description |
|---|---|
| Kubernetes | 1.22 or newer |
| EC2 Instances | 6 nodes of m4.4xlarge |
| EBS Volume Type | gp2 |
Note: Current default version of Kubernetes on eks is 1.24+. However, with storage class gp2, please see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/storage-classes.html. Please deploy eks cluster with kubernetes version 1.22 for correct functionality with storage class gp2.
if >= 1.23 is used to deploy the EKS cluster then users must follow instructions from here to install the EBS CSI driver: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/ebs-csi-migration-faq.html to ensure their pods are started correctly.
Prerequisites
Install the following
kubectl ( https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/ )
helm chart ( https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/ )
eksctl (https://eksctl.io/)
Make sure you have created a cluster on EKS with above configurations and you are using EKS context.