Seems like the connection between containernet hosts is working properly. However I think I'm still unable to connect the IPFS nodes to each other.

After running the initial network bootstrap, doing jsipfs swarm peers lists the multiple peers in the containernet network as being valid connections (although they're all bound to the loopback interface):

Test net running
Running node with id QmTBcwuunUvU3w95L4gCD6k12SRZBarkhUVs4cmoZ86HnF
Running node with id QmVVx6s2QvEnRZwYhxH1j7bzYgwpQZWVpguhPbCsTdR8Bq
Running node with id QmWiiK1wzz1yokSkEo8f5n5KnZUZEbF7qkKW7FXMPwWmhS
Running node with id QmSSZYyLmcvt6bpovKbCiwac9BouXwr8mtnFwdQFNYpdCx
Running node with id QmcEqbBUTJLmrdCFmAEPHLHXPQUCcxTXr4MDCfaFywAccw
Running node with id QmdVxTkbYLdZRbw7KStncWoGbc5M8z45MzT88WXJkqAG7E
Bootstrap finished

root@d1:/usr/src/app# jsipfs swarm peers
(...)
/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4002/ipfs/QmVVx6s2QvEnRZwYhxH1j7bzYgwpQZWVpguhPbCsTdR8Bq
/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4002/ipfs/QmcEqbBUTJLmrdCFmAEPHLHXPQUCcxTXr4MDCfaFywAccw
/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4002/ipfs/QmWiiK1wzz1yokSkEo8f5n5KnZUZEbF7qkKW7FXMPwWmhS
/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4002/ipfs/QmSSZYyLmcvt6bpovKbCiwac9BouXwr8mtnFwdQFNYpdCx
/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4002/ipfs/QmdVxTkbYLdZRbw7KStncWoGbc5M8z45MzT88WXJkqAG7E

How does each IPFS node connect to the others without me doing anything? Any clues? Somehow I think they shouldn't list the other peers as being under the loopback interface ip address.
Is there a way of testing the connection between 2 IPFS nodes? There seems to be a ping command but it is not working in js-ipfs right? Because if I try to use pub-sub it doesn't work (subscribing a peer to a topic and publishing on the other side, nothing happens).

State

• Subscriptions topic/node/global
• Published events per topic/node/global

Resources

• CPU usage per node/global
• Memory usage per node/global
• Network usage per node/global

QoS

• Total number of events received per topic/global
• % of events delivered per topic/global
• Average(?) number of hops per topic/total (? possible to extract?)
• Average(?) (number of messages per event published / subscriptions) per topic/total (? possible to extract?)

The end result of this process should be to run our test-harness in the Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes as a Service platform.

The focus should be for us to get close to the real world without it being something binding. Essentially, if you could have a dataset like Reddit for example, where we can have a topic hierarchy and subscriber num we could even infer the number of posts per topic based on the popularity of it.

In the end the goal is to have a zipfian distribution and an uniform one. That way we could see how the system behaves under a well balanced ideal situation and an unbalanced, "real world" one.

We'll need to:

• Find a dataset that suits our use case
• Extract and process the information to a relevant format
• Store that same information somewhere (hopefully git/GitHub will do)
• Create a scripted automated way of using that information

We should set everything ready in order to run our test-harness using - https://github.com/JGAntunes/ipfs-testbed