In deploying instances, how do I determine their chain membership?

Question

I'm developing a UI for deploying MultiChain instances to a server (OpenShift or Kubernetes) at the click of a button. I have this code working but I I'm new to this and I have an elementary question. I'm using Python and YAML files, so I believe the answer to my question has to do with what I need to do in my YAML files.

I don't know how to deploy such that the instances (nodes) know that they all belong to the same chain and don't belong to any other chain on the internet. I think I am probably deploying them to a chain called "MyChain" at the moment, because I have "name: CHAINNAME \n value: MyChain" in the YAML. But what if some other MultiChain chain on the internet has the same name? Won't my nodes become members of that chain?

Thank you for any advice.

Answer 1

You need to deploy them with the address of another node on the same blockchain, that is already running. This "node address" (available using the getinfo command) is passed as a parameter on the command line to the multichaind command.

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Thank you for the assistance!