Architecting, Designing and Deploying a Hyperledger Fabric Network

Course Overview

   

This 5 day course is designed to service Blockchain Architects who are looking to gather insight and experience on how Hyperledger Fabric works, its benefits, and how to develop a well architected solution. This course will accommodate architects with very little-to-no experience on Fabric, and give them the knowledge necessary for perform the role of a Fabric Architect.

What You’ll Learn

• Gain an understanding of the Hyperledger Fabric network topology
• Learn about Chaincode, its purpose, and how to develop it using Go.
• Learn how to handle chaincode operations such as making chaincode packages accessible to peers, invoking and interacting with the chaincode logic from the CLI, and much more.
• Learn about how to create and develop an initial client Side solution (Using Node) to interact with the network.
• Learn about how to scale the network organizations, peers, and orderer nodes.
• Perform Certificate Authority Related operations & setup necessary for initial network Identity relations.

Audience

• System Administrators or anyone who wants to know how to run day-to-day network operations on a stood up Hyperledger Fabric network

Course Outline

• Introduction
• Why Blockchain
• Why Hyperledger Fabric?
• What you should know:
• Hardware Prerequisites
• Knowledge Prerequisites
• Blockchain Prerequisites
• Blockchain Architecture
• Public Vs. Private
• Nodes
• Permissions
• Use Case Walkthrough
• Hyperledger Fabric Architecture
• Component Walkthrough
• Orderer
• Certificate Authority
  1. Server
  2. Client
• Ledger
• Database
  1. Database Options
• Roles & Actors
• Transaction Flow
• Fabric Capabilities
• Identity
• New Features
• Demystifying the Blockchain in HLF
• Standard System vs. Blockchain System
• Integration with Existing Systems
• Examples
• Fabric Network Definition Topology Walkthrough
• What the purpose of each file
• File Content Walkthrough
• Bootstrapping the Backend
• Specifying our Volumes
• Writing our container definitions from scratch
• Network Artifact
• What is it?
• Genesis Block
• Initial Channel Config
• Creation & Generation
• Initial Certificate Creation & Walkthrough
• Writing Chaincode
• Chaincode Overview(what is it, purpose,etc.)
• Chaincode writing with GO, and Node
• Packaging and Distributing Chaincode
• Administering Identity
• Identity In Hyperledger Fabric
• X509 certificates
• Certificate Authority Autonomy
• Purposes
• Capabilities(Register, enroll,etc)
• Best Practices(RootCA→ICA, etc)
• Certificate Authority Server vs. Client
  1. CLI
  2. SDK
• Channel Management
• What is a Channel?
• Purpose
• Creating Channels
• Permissioning Peers and Organizations to join channels
• Creating initial Channel
• Network Scaling
• Horizontal Scaling vs. Vertical using Docker
• Organization Scaling
• Orderer Adjustment
• Securing Network
• Role Control with ACL’s
• Hosting Options
• AWS
• IBM Bluemix
• Digital Ocean
• Adding the SDK
• What the SDK does
• SDK options
• SDK API’s
• Writing an SDK (Lab)
• Everything’s a Database
• Ledger
• WorldState Database (Repository)
• Database options
• Database Differences
• Smaller Companies Vs. Bigger Companies
• Consensus
• Modularity
• Endorsement Policy
• Everything about Orderers
• What are they
• Node Difference in Orderers vs. other Peers
• Kafka vs. Solo
• Network Security
• TLS implementation
• Bash Scripts to automate the Dev to deployment process!

 Course Labs

• Installing HLF & setting up
• Building the Network Artifacts, files and basis
• Bootstrapping the Network
• Writing the Chaincode
• Building the Network
• Creating the Channels, and implementing Permissions
• Scaling the network & Modularity
• Assigning the Client

Prerequisites

To best benefit from this course:

• Knowledge of basic Linux system administration commands, and navigation
• Knowledge of Command line basics
• Strong knowledge of containerization and Docker
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases and general understanding of CouchDB
• Strong understanding of Blockchain basics

Ways to Learn

We provide instructor-led in two modalities:

• Instructors Onsite at your location (team training)
• Via WebEx led by an Instructor with live labs (team training)