In this, I run down some of the sticking points for me in deploying the Dragonchain and getting it to successfully register on the Dragon Net. I suspect some of these might be common, so they could prove helpful when putting together more comprehensive documentation for deploying such chains, or a "Tips & Tricks for Success" document.
For my environment, I used a minikube running in a VM created by VirtualBox, on a Windows machine. The deployment was done primarily using a cygwin console.
- The first sticking point was pods crashing due to insufficient memory. Minikube defaults to allocating 2GB. I initially attempted to rectify this with adding a flag when starting the minikube, which seemed to prevent some of the crashes:
minikube start --memory 4096
- However, the
es-master-0
pod continued to crash. Help on the Slack channel indicated that I should try SSHing into the minikube and setting the virtual memory allocation higher for Elasticsearch: `sudo sysc