Our bitcoin controller now has the basic functionality that we expect - it can synchronize the to-be state and the as-is state and update status information. However, to be really useful, a few things are still missing. Most importantly, we want our nodes to form a real network and need to establish a mechanism to … Continue reading Building a bitcoin controller for Kubernetes part V – establishing connectivity
Month: August 2019
Building a bitcoin controller for Kubernetes part IV – garbage collection and status updates
In our short series on implementing a bitcoin controller for Kubernetes, we have reached the point where the controller is actually bringing up bitcoin nodes in our network. Today, we will extend its logic to also cover deletions and we will start to add additional logic to monitor the state of our network. Step 9: … Continue reading Building a bitcoin controller for Kubernetes part IV – garbage collection and status updates
Building a bitcoin controller for Kubernetes part III – service accounts and the reconciliation function
In the previous post, we have reached the point where our controller is up and running and is starting to handle events. However, we hit upon a problem at the end of the last post - when running in-cluster, our controller uses a service account which is not authorized to access our bitcoin network resources. … Continue reading Building a bitcoin controller for Kubernetes part III – service accounts and the reconciliation function