Polkadot is a blockchain that provides unprecedented economic scalability by enabling a common set of validators to secure multiple blockchains. Polkadot provides transactional scalability by spreading transactions across multiple parallel blockchains. The full story can be found here: https://www.polkadot.network/
This charm is maintained by Dwellir, https://dwellir.com - Infrastructure provider for blockchain and web3.
The charm manages the polkadot software lifecycle E.g. installation, configuring, upgrading, operations & monitoring over time.
The charm starts the Polkadot client as a service, taking startup arguments from /etc/default/polkadot as set by the juju config service-args.
The Polkadot client itself is downloaded and installed from the charm config binary-url. See: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/ for available releases.
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The charm is capable of running all polkadot parachains by setting the service-args.
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Juju actions & configs are available to let the charm act as bootnode, validator, collator or rpc.
Project and community
Polkadot is an open source project that warmly welcomes community projects, contributions, suggestions, fixes and constructive feedback.
Thinking about using Polkadot in your next project? Get in touch!