private-net.md

Private networks

Private networks might be useful if you want to use a completely blank slate for testing. This is the default for sandbox ("sandnet"), but you may want to replicate this on a node.

Create a private devmode network

First, create a network template. There is a Devmode network template in go-algorand that we can use. Let's put that file in directory ~/net1 and cd into it.

Then, create the network:

./goal network create -r ~/net1 -n private -t DevModeNetwork.json

This will create the network directory in ~/net1. In the Node directory inside net1/, there should be a config.json. You can customize the configurations here.

Reference: https://developer.algorand.org/tutorials/create-private-network/

Start network

Start up the network:

goal network start -r ~/net1
# Check network status
goal network status -r ~/net1