Tatooine Faucet

Tatooine is a small bitcoin testnet faucet built with Ktor, a Kotlin asynchronous framework for creating microservices and web applications. The faucet was initially built for and is currently in production as part of the Padawan Wallet project.

Tatooine can run anywhere with a JVM runtime, and is most easily deployed using containers. The podman/ directory has the Containerfile necessary to build an image using Podman or Docker.

Building the faucet

You can build the project by running the distTar task like so

./gradlew distTar

This will output a tarball in /app/build/distributions/tatooine-0.6.0.tar which you can extract anywhere you'd like using something like

tar --extract --verbose --file ./app/build/distributions/tatooine-0.6.0.tar -C /target/path/for/faucet/

The tarball opens up into a directory

❯ tree tattoine-0.6.0
.
├── bin
│   ├── tatooine
│   └── tatooine.bat
└── lib
    ├── bcprov-jdk15to18-1.68.jar
    ├── bitcoinj-core-0.15.10.jar
    ├── ...

Running the faucet

On Linux/macOS, simply run the tatooine binary to start up the service:

./tatooine-0.6.0/bin/tatooine

Using a custom config file

By default, the faucet will run using the configurations set in the resources/application.conf file at the time the project was compiled. Modifying that file and recompiling every time you want a configuration change is not ideal.

A better way is to write different configuration files and simply provide their location when launching the service in different settings (development, production, etc.).

You achieve this by adding a -config argument to the call when launching the service. For example, if you add a file called production.conf to the bin/ directory with the binaries, you'll then be able to launch the service using:

./tatooine-0.6.0/bin/tatooine -config=production.conf

Podman/Docker

The easiest way to deploy a Tatooine faucet on the cloud is through a Podman or Docker container.

To do that, first build the application by running the distTar task and copy the resulting tarball to the podman directory. Add your production.conf file, and you're ready to build the image.

./gradlew :distTar
cp ./app/build/distributions/tatooine-0.5.0.tar ./podman/

# podman/ directory content
tree podman/
podman/
├── Containerfile
├── production.conf
└── tatooine-0.6.0/

Then from the podman directory, simply build the image, create the container, and start it.

cd path/to/podman/
podman build --tag tatooinefaucet:v0.5.0 .
podman create --name tatooinefaucet --publish 0.0.0.0:8080:8080 localhost/tatooinefaucet:v0.5.0
podman start tatooinefaucet
# podman stop tatooinefaucet

If you are deploying on the cloud, you'll need to copy the contents of the podman/ directory on the host machine first using something like

scp -P 22 -r ./podman/ user@<ip>:/home/user/

Using the faucet

Most of the routes for the server require authentication, and the /sendcoins route requires a POST request. Here are examples for all 4 routes: