Swarm development environment

The Swarm development environment is a Linux bash shell which can be run in a Docker container and provides a predictable build and test environment.

Start the Docker container

Run the run.sh script to build the Docker image and run it, you will then be at a bash prompt inside the swarm/dev directory.

Build binaries

Run make to build the swarm, geth and bootnode binaries into the swarm/dev/bin directory.

Boot a cluster

Run make cluster to start a 3 node Swarm cluster, or run scripts/boot-cluster.sh --size N to boot a cluster of size N.