celotool

Celotool

A useful tool for various scripts that we as an engineering team might run. This is the only remaining version, in Typescript. There used to be a Python version too. Hence the references to celotooljs.

Setup

# Install packages
yarn

If you want to use this tool from anywhere, add an alias to your ~/.bash_profile.

alias celotooljs=<YOUR_PATH_TO_MONOREPO>/packages/celotool/bin/celotooljs.sh

Usage

Running celotooljs should give you the output like the following that let's you know what you can do:

celotooljs <command>

Commands:
celotooljs account <accountCommand>     commands for fauceting,
                                        looking up accounts and users
celotooljs backup                       command for backing up a miner's
                                        persistent volume (PVC)
celotooljs copy-contract-artifacts      command for copying contract
                                        artifacts in a format to be easily
                                        consumed by other (typescript)
                                        packages. It will use the ABI of a
                                        particular contract and swap the
                                        address for the address of the
                                        Proxy.
celotooljs deploy <deployMethod>        commands for deployment of various
<deployPackage>                         packages in the monorepo
celotooljs geth <command>               commands for geth
celotooljs links <resource>             commands for various useful links
celotooljs port-forward                 command for port-forwarding to a
                                        specific network
celotooljs restore                      command for restoring a miner's
                                        persistent volume (PVC) from
                                        snapshot
celotooljs switch                       command for switching to a
                                        particular environment
celotooljs transactions <command>       commands for reading transaction
                                        data
Options:
--version     Show version number                                  [boolean]
--verbose     Whether to show a bunch of debugging output like stdout and
              stderr of shell commands            [boolean] [default: false]
--yesreally   Reply "yes" to prompts about changing staging/production
              (be careful!)                       [boolean] [default: false]
  --help        Show help                                            [boolean]

How to Faucet an Account

Run this command: celotooljs account faucet --celo-env <integration-or-your-testnet> --account <account-address> --gold 10 --dollar 10

How to Setup a Local Celo Blockchain Node

You might need to setup a local node for some reasons, therefore celotooljs provides you with a few useful commands to make running a node really easy.

• Clone Celo Blockchain repo
• Build celotooljs geth build --geth-dir <directory-where-you-cloned-geth-repo> -c
• Init celotooljs geth init --geth-dir <directory-where-you-cloned-geth-repo> --data-dir <geth-data-dir> -e <env-name>
• Run celotooljs geth run --geth-dir <directory-where-you-cloned-geth-repo> --data-dir <geth-data-dir> --sync-mode <full | fast | light | ultralight>

How to Deploy a Test Network to the Cloud

• Setup the environment variables: MNEMONIC, and GETH_ACCOUNT_SECRET.

• Deploy: celotooljs deploy initial testnet -e yourname

• Get pods: kubectl get pods -n yourname

• Start shell: kubectl exec -n podname -it podname /bin/sh

• Tear down: celotooljs deploy destroy testnet -e yourname

MacOS Setup

• Install Helm 3.4 or higher (available on Homebrew) To get past the Unidentified Developer error: open the directory containing helm, then ctrl-click helm and select Open then Open again. Repeat for tiller.