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A suite of tools to create simulated Radicle networks to run tests in:
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- **Talos**: A lightweight, immutable Linux operating system built specifically to run Kubernetes. It can run locally on your machine (via QEMU or Docker) or as a baremetal OS (amongst other deploy options).
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- **Kubernetes (K8s)**: The orchestrator that runs the Radicle nodes in isolated "Pods" (containers) and manages their networking and storage.
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- **Kubernetes (K8s)**: The orchestrator that runs the Radicle nodes in isolated pods (containers) and manages their networking and storage.
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- **Timoni** & **CUE**: The configuration engine. Instead of writing YAML, we use CUE files to define network topologies. Timoni translates these into Kubernetes instructions.
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- **Cargo test**: The test runner. Write tests in Rust that will execute over the provisioned networks.
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## Overview
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The Garden team currently deploys containerised versions of `radicle-node` into [Quay.io](https://quay.io/repository/radicle_garden/radicle-node?tab=tags&tag=latest).
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We can utilise these containers inside of K8s configuration files to compose sets of 'pods'. These pods can act as different kinds of `radicle-node`'s e.g. peer, seed or bootstrap, running different `heartwood` versions on platforms of our choosing.
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We can utilise these containers inside of K8s configuration files to compose sets of pods. These pods can act as different kinds of `radicle-node`'s e.g. peer, seed or bootstrap, running different `heartwood` versions on platforms of our choosing.
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Each of these 'sets of pods' configuration will be considered a network topology, and defined in [CUE](https://cuelang.org/). It allows us to write type safe configuration definitions instead of YAML.
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We'll then use [Timoni](https://timoni.sh/) to transpile these CUE defined network topologies into [K8s object definition files](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/) and deploy them.
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[Talos](https://talos.dev) will be used to run the K8s pods on; so we can easily switch between locally deployed, via QEMU or Docker, to baremetal on SBC's like Raspberry Pi's, or remotely in Cloud environments.
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