aesir 0.5.5

Command line interface used for generating local Lightning test environment

Aesir

Prerequisites

• python 3.10 and above - High-level general-purpose programming language
• pip - package installer for Python
• docker - build, deploy run, update and manage containerized applications

Getting started

You can use aesir simply by installing via pip on your Terminal.

pip install aesir

And then you can begin deploying local cluster as such:

aesir deploy

The initial deployment may take some time at pulling required images from their respective repositories. Results may look as such:

$ pip install aesir
> ...
> Installing collected packages: aesir
> Successfully installed aesir-0.4.3
$ aesir deploy
> Deploy specified local cluster:            ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% 0:00:01
> Generate addresses:                        ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% 0:00:00
> Mine initial capital for parties:          ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% 0:00:00

You will have podman containers running in the backend, ready to be interfaced by your local environment applications you are developing.

Begin local mining

In order to properly test many functionalities, you will need to send mining commands to local setup. You can achieve completely local and running environment with the following command:

Cluster types

Currently there are two supported cluster-types in this project. Specified by flags, --duo (default), or --cat, --ohm, --uno with the following set-up:

Type	Description
cat	Customized aesir-bitcoind-cat node that has OP_CAT enabled for experiments
duo	Contains two LND nodes named aesir-ping and aesir-pong unified by one single aesir-bitcoind service.
ohm	Only has aesir-bitcoind without any Lightning nodes.
uno	Only has one LND node named aesir-lnd connected to aesir-bitcoind.

Peripheral containers

This project also helps you setup peripheral services to make development process easier, too. For example, if you want to deploy a duo-cluster with attached postgres database, run the following:

$ aesir deploy --with-postgres
> ...
$ aesir mine
> FIXME

Or run an uno-cluster with both attached postgres database and redis solid store cache like this:

$ aesir deploy --uno --with-postgres --with-redis
> ...
$ aesir mine
> FIXME

Cleanup

Use the following command to clean up active aesir-* containers:

aesir clean

🚧 This will resets the current test state, so use with care. Example below:

$ aesir clean
> Remove active containers:                  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% 0:00:01

Change-logs

• 0.3.1 Add aesir-cashu-mint & aesir-lnd-krub image setups and deployments w/ shared volumes
• 0.3.2 Define classifiers on pyproject.toml for PyPI metadata
• 0.3.3 Drop black and use ruff formatter and linter
• 0.3.4 Simplify deployment workflows and
• 0.3.5 Restructure project so that when installed, src folder will not be created
• 0.3.6 Breakdown "setup" command into "build" and "pull"
• 0.3.7 Lightning cluster now with ord
• 0.3.8 Rename "ord" to "ord-server" to avoid confusion with cli
• 0.3.9 Remove intermediate containers
• 0.4.0 Resist electricity with "ohm" mode
• 0.4.1 Remove Ordinals' spiked ball
• 0.4.2 Disable bitcoind prune mode
• 0.4.3 Implement dashboard walkthrough using blessed
• 0.4.4 Add cat cluster in deployment and --bitcoind-cat flag for customized build
• 0.4.5 The Yggdrasil update where docker build logs are chunked for display
• 0.4.6 Create default wallet if no lnd containers
• 0.4.7 (reverted) Remove unittesting from image build process
• 0.4.8 Follow Productivity Notes for bitcoind-cat; Fix progress bar overlap.
• 0.4.9 Change package manager and add invoice command
• 0.5.0 Adopt podman to encourage daemonlessness and rootlessness
• 0.5.1 Drop podman support for unstable SSH connections, viva Docker
• 0.5.2 Stricten type definitions and fix undefined/attribute bugs
• 0.5.3 Define aesir-bitcoind and aesir-lnd build instructions. Decouple from Polar's
• 0.5.4 Add Lightning Terminal to list of available peripherals as aesir-litd
• 0.5.5 Fix build selection and ordering for missing images in deploy command

Roadmap

• Add CI/CD with testcontainers
• Simplify schemas.yml and embed commands to service definitions
• Drop docker-py and replace with podman-py (rolled back and on hold)
• Write click tests.
• Use joblib to speed up deployment with parallelization.
• Create and add some type of ordapi peripheral service.

Known issues

• Mining dashboard hangs when using aesir-bitcoind & aesir-ord-server together in ohm cluster
• Rust images like aesir-electrs and aesir-ord-server are prone to build failure

Contributions

Prerequisites

• pyenv - simple Python version management
• uv - extremely fast Python package & project manager written in Rust

Set up local environment

The following guide walks through setting up your local working environment using pyenv as Python version manager and uv as Python package manager. If you do not have pyenv installed, run the following command.

Install using Homebrew (Darwin)

brew install pyenv --head

Install using standalone installer (Darwin and Linux)

curl https://pyenv.run | bash

If you do not have uv installed, run the following command.

Install using Homebrew (Darwin)

brew install uv

Install using standalone installer (Darwin and Linux)

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Once you have pyenv Python version manager installed, you can install any version of Python above version 3.10 for this project. The following commands help you set up and activate a Python virtual environment where uv can download project dependencies from the PyPI open-sourced registry defined under pyproject.toml file.

Set up environment and synchroniz project dependencies

pyenv shell 3.11.9
uv venv  --python-preference system
source .venv/bin/activate
uv sync --dev

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.