Ethereum sidechains

Question

• I have just started learning blockchain development

• I have created an ethereum sidechain, which is running on docker containers in my local machine.

• I have previously used solidity to write smart contracts and deploy them on the testnet using truffle, or by getting the provider from infura.

Note: wherein each container acts as a node.

But how do I do the same thing for my private chain?

Answer 1

You need to configure truffle to point to your testnet. The truffle config docs describe how to do this in detail. Essentially you want to put the following in your truffle.js file:

networks: {
    test: {
        host: "<ip address of one of your docker containers>",
        port: <port number your container is listening on>,
        network_id: "*"  // match any network id
    }
}