Setting up an Ethereum blockchain network on GKE

The approach described previously is easy to execute and convenient to run, but it comes with a catch: our control over the deployed infrastructure is limited to the few options that we have seen before: zone, machine type, and disk size. How about all the aspects of container orchestration and scalability that Kubernetes offers? For this to happen, we need to deploy our Ethereum network in a different manner, which involves creating a Kubernetes cluster with GKE first and then deploying the relevant Ethereum nodes as pods.

Let’s perform all these steps together:

1. Create a Kubernetes cluster with GKE

   Use the Google Cloud SDK to create a Kubernetes cluster with GKE. Choose the appropriate machine type, region, and node pool size based on your requirements:

   #!/bin/bash

   # Set your desired values

   PROJECT_ID="your-project-id"

   CLUSTER_NAME="your-cluster-name"

   ZONE="us-central1-a"

   NODE_COUNT=3

   MACHINE_TYPE...