Streamlining Rollup Deployment on Celestia with Ignite Manager
Ignite Manager is a command-line tool that reads a file describing a Cosmos chain to be scaffolded, built and deployed.
Streamlining Rollup Deployment on Celestia with Ignite Manager
- Intro
- Celestia: A New Approach to Modularity
- FabChain: Interoperability for Distributed Manufacturing Ecosystems
- Introducing Ignite Manager: Streamlining Rollup Deployment
- Deploying FabChain with Ignite Manager
- Ignite Manager: Enabling Growth in the Cosmos Ecosystem
- Enhancing Developer Experience with Ignite Manager
- Future Development of Ignite Manager
- Conclusion
Intro
In this article, we will delve into the creation of the Ignite Manager tool, designed to simplify the deployment of rollups on Celestia using Ignite. We will also discuss how we utilized this tool to deploy FabChain.
Pierre-Alexis Ciavaldini, founder of DistriFab, also works at ZKValidator which is one of the 100 selected validators for Celestia’s Blockspace Race. Celestia was the perfect match for DistriFab’s deployment, which is why it was very natural for ZKValidator to deploy DistriFab as part of the Blockspace Race.
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Celestia: A New Approach to Modularity
Celestia, a recent addition to the Cosmos ecosystem, offers a unique approach to modularity by separating the consensus layer from the application logic in rollups. This separation enhances scalability as rollups can handle higher transaction volumes without congesting the main chain. Furthermore, rollups provide security by leveraging the security properties of the underlying blockchain without disrupting the application layer’s governance. Rollups also enable interoperability with various blockchain networks and applications, providing Cosmos’ standard interface for communication. To learn more about Celestia, you can read our previous article “A new paradigm: What is the Celestia blockchain?“, and Celestia’s official docs.
FabChain: Interoperability for Distributed Manufacturing Ecosystems
DistriFab’s FabChain aims to create interoperability between distributed manufacturing ecosystems by enabling interaction with different ecosystem actors, such as design agencies, storefronts, and manufacturers.
Deploying FabChain as a rollup on Celestia helps achieve these goals by taking advantage of rollups’ scalability, security, and interoperability benefits. FabChain and Celestia can accelerate the development and adoption of distributed manufacturing paradigms by connecting existing distributed manufacturing ecosystems in a standardised way.
Introducing Ignite Manager: Streamlining Rollup Deployment
ZKValidator’s Ignite Manager is a tool that automates the process of scaffolding, building, and configuring blockchain applications using the Ignite framework. By reading a configuration file and generating the necessary files and structure for your blockchain application, Ignite Manager simplifies the deployment process.
Deploying FabChain with Ignite Manager
To get started with Ignite Manager, clone the zkvalidator/ignite-manager repository and follow the instructions in the README file.
FabChain is a rollup built using the Cosmos SDK and deployed on Celestia. To deploy FabChain on Celestia, we used Ignite Manager, which reads a `build.yml` file to configure the chain and its features.
Here’s an example of a `build.yml` file used for deploying a chain:
ignite:
version: 12d3491
config: !include config.yml
framework:
type: rollkit
versions:
github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk: github.com/rollkit/[email protected]
github.com/tendermint/tendermint: github.com/celestiaorg/[email protected]
chain:
name: fabchain
prefix: fab
modules:
- name: fab
deps:
- bank
- staking
models:
# chain models go hereAfter configuring the `build.yml` file, you can use Ignite Manager to deploy FabChain locally for development or to Celestia by running the following command:
# Run a rollup locally for development
./run.sh build.yml
# Deploy a rollup to Celestia
./run.sh build.yml \
--namespace "b9529aa114a1f70a" \
--app-address http://37.27.10.10 \
--bridge-address http://65.108.137.217
The tool works for rollkit rollups on Celestia (it starts a celestia-appd and celestia-node bridge locally) as well as Tendermint chains.
