• HGF K8S Workshop
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    • Cluster creation
    • Development example
    • Production example
    • Cleanup
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Hyperledger Global Forum workshop on deploying Hyperledger Fabric on Kubernetes in development and production.

You may wish to explore https://github.com/aidtechnology/nephos, which helps automate the deployment of similar examples as presented here.

In the workshop we demonstrate how to create a managed K8S cluster on Azure:

export GROUP=hgf-workshop
export LOCATION=westeurope

az group create -n $GROUP -l $LOCATION
az aks create -g $GROUP -n ${GROUP}-aks -s Standard_DS2_v2 --kubernetes-version 1.11.5 --node-count 5
az aks get-credentials -g $GROUP -n ${GROUP}-aks

Then you can install Helm, using

kubectl create -f ./helm-rbac.yaml

helm init --service-account tiller

Finally, add the incubator repository, so you are able to install Kafka, etc.

helm repo add incubator https://kubernetes-charts-incubator.storage.googleapis.com/

helm repo update

We will start with the dev_example, using Cryptogen to set up the identities and cryptographic material.

This is sufficient for Development purposes and will use a very simple setup of 1 peer and 1 (solo) orderer.

In the second part of the workshop, prod_example, we will be using the Fabric CA to provide the identities and cryptographic material.

This uses as production-ready setup implementing Certificate Authorities persisting identities to PostgreSQL, multiple peers and multiple (Kafka-consensus) orderers.

If you use Azure AKS, you can just delete the resource group and associated AKS cluster in one fell swoop.

az group delete -n $GROUP

Our charts can be found at the official Helm Charts repository:

https://github.com/helm/charts

And also on our own open-source repository:

https://github.com/aidtechnology/at-charts

We also have a repository hosting the Fabric CA client Homebrew installer (for OS X):

https://github.com/aidtechnology/homebrew-fabric-ca

Blockchain for Business - An Introduction to Hyperledger Technologies, where we have contributed the Hyperledger Composer chapter:

https://www.edx.org/course/blockchain-business-introduction-linuxfoundationx-lfs171x-0

Blockchain for Blockchain Applications on Packt and Udemy:

https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/hyperledger-blockchain-applications-video

https://www.udemy.com/hyperledger-for-blockchain-applications/

In progress