Sidecar

Network health checks and Antithesis test driver.

Role

The sidecar connects to each producer node via node-to-client (N2C) protocol and validates network status. It signals to Antithesis when the testnet setup is complete and ready for fault injection.

Image

ghcr.io/cardano-foundation/cardano-node-antithesis/sidecar:<commit>

Configuration

Environment variables: - NETWORKMAGIC: Testnet network magic (42) - PORT: Node port (3001) - POOLS: Number of block-producing pools - NCONNS: Number of connections per pool - CHAINPOINT_FILEPATH: Path to chain points log from tracer