Deploying to mainnet

The guide about Deploying your first project explains how to deploy a project to a local network, which is very good for testing. Once you are happy with your initial contracts, you can deploy them to mainnet using the --network flag.

This flag takes the network details from the Truffle configuration file. You can use Infura to connect to mainnet, with a truffle-config.js like this one:

'use strict';

var HDWalletProvider = require("truffle-hdwallet-provider");

var mnemonic = "orange apple banana ... ";

module.exports = {
  networks: {
    mainnet: {
      provider: function() {
        return new HDWalletProvider(mnemonic, "https://mainnet.infura.io/<INFURA_Access_Token>")
      },      
      gas: 5000000,
      gasPrice: 5e9,
      network_id: 1
    }
  }
};

Make sure to replace the mnemonic with the one you used to generate your accounts, and change <INFURA_Access_Token> to your token.

Install the truffle-hdwallet-provider module with:

npm install truffle-hdwallet-provider

And now you can run zos commands in mainnet. For example:

zos push --network mainnet

This will use your first account generated from the mnemonic. If you want to specify a different account, use the --from flag.

Here you will find a guide with more details about configuring Truffle to use Infura.

You can use other test networks like ropsten to further test your contracts before pushing them to mainnet. But remember that now your contracts are upgradeable! Even if you find a bug after deploying them to mainnet, you will be able to fix it without losing the contract state and in a way that's transparent for your users.