Deploy test network

[ulope]

Problem Definition

Deploy a test network

Environment

• blockchain: geth X ropsten (maybe later rinkeby)
• deployment: AWS

Scenario

• 100 raiden nodes
• 3 ERC20 tokens
• connect token networks over time
• initiate transfers to other nodes
• receive transfers from other nodes
• leave token networks
• test interwoven transfers (token/mediation/direct)
• apart from some specific transfers it should have some transfer "background noise"

Existing Infrastructure

• ansible AWS deployment scripts
• (predictable) node address/account generation scripts
• contract deployment scripts
• token deployment & distribution scripts
• simplified deployment by using raiden.AppImage (instead of installing python+dependencies)

Missing/incomplete infrastructure

• public testnet connection with minimal sync overhead (trusted node(s))
• public testnet ETH faucet/distribution for participant addresses/accounts
• global scenario view
• scenario playbook control via raiden restful API/RPC (this should replace scenario_runner.py which was a modded raiden app instance)
• scenario assertions via raiden restful API/RPC ("node37 sent 5 and received 7 token Y, assert balance before settle")
• scenario assertions via blockchain (assert token balance after settlement: "node37 balance of token Y has changed '-2'")
• node error alarms (raiden processes should be monitored for livelyhood)
• central log-file collection (logs are stored on AWS instances, but recovery may be tedious with current implementation)

Nice to have's

• global scenario instrumentation (connection graph, transfer success/failure rate, path lengths)

[ulope]

The testnet has been deployed (#712). Subtasks are being tracked in

• Create transfers on the test network #649
• Monitor test network #650
• Create "Echo Node" for the test network #651
• Create scenario player for the test network #652