Hyperledger Fabric and Tools
- 2. BlockChain Technology Blockchain is a Decentralized, Distributed and immutable ledger (group of transactions). A block is the ‘current’ part of a blockchain, which records some or all of the recent transactions. Once completed, a block goes into the blockchain as a permanent database. Each time a block gets completed, a new one is generated. There is a countless number of such blocks in the blockchain, connected to each other (like links in a chain) in proper linear, chronological order. Every block contains a hash of the previous block Each node (a computer connected to the network) gets a copy of the blockchain, which is updated automatically.
- 3. Why Blockchain Technology? Made Transactions transparent and secure because of using cryptography patterns No need of third Party to record transactions due to decentralized nature of the technology. Transferred power to people High security to the data Transactions cannot be altered or deleted because it is an immutable ledger.
- 4. Smart Contract :- computer protocol intended to facilate, verify or enforce the negotiation or performance of contract Mining :- Adding transactions to the ledger Peers :- Each node (a computer connected to the network) is called peer Endorser :-Peer will simulate the transaction and ensure that the outcome is both deterministic and stable Committer :-The peer will validate the integrity of a transaction and then append to the ledger. Endorsement policy:- Instruct a peer on how to decide whether a transaction is properly endorsed Transactions:- Transactions are submitted by a participant to affect the assets held in the asset registries on the Hyperledger blockchain Consensus:- An agreement made between peers or organizations Quick Notes
- 5. What is Hyperledger Hyperledger is an umbrella project of open source blockchains and related tools started in December 2015 by the Linux Foundation to support the collaborative development of blockchain- based distributed ledgers. The “umbrella strategy” of Hyperledger incubates and promotes a range of business blockchain technologies, framework, libraries, interfaces, and application. Currently, Hyperledger is the host of the following projects with frameworks. Hyperledger Fabric Hyperledger Sawtooth Hyperledger Iroha Hyperledger Indy Hyperledger Burrow
- 7. HyperLedger Fabric Hyperledger Fabric is a blockchain framework implementation and one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by The Linux Foundation. Fabric is distinguished as a platform for permissioned networks, where all participants have known identities. It is built on a modular architecture that separates transaction processing into three phases: distributed logic processing and agreement ("chaincode"), transaction ordering, and transaction validation and commitment. Latest release of Hyperledger fabric is v1.0
- 8. Prerequisites: Docker - version 17.03.0-ce or greater Docker Compose - version 1.8 or greater Node.js - version 6.9.x or greater NPM – version 3.10.10. Go – 1.7x / JDK. Hyperledger Fabric platform-specific binaries. • Cryptogen. • configtxgen, • configtxlator, • peer Download the Docker images required for Fabric.
- 9. Transaction lifecycle of Hyperledger Fabric
- 10. Chaincode Chaincode, also called the smart contract, is essentially the business logic that governs how the different entities or parties in a blockchain network interact or transact with each other. Invocations of the chaincode result in sets and gets of the ledger or world state It is a piece of code that is deployed into a network of Hyperledger fabric peer nodes that enables interaction with that network's shared ledger. Chaincode runs in a secured Docker container isolated from the endorsing peer process. Chaincode initializes and manages ledger state through transactions submitted by applications.
- 11. ChainCode
- 12. Chaincode Development To start a development environment, we need to perform the following seven tasks: 1. Build peer, orderer, and configtxgen executable binary . 2. Create genesis block for the orderer. 3. Start the orderer. 4. Start the peer. 5. Create channel configuration transaction and create a channel on orderer. 6. Join the peer to created channel. 7. Compile the chaincode and start executing. 8. Install and Instantiate the chaincode on the peer.
- 13. Working with chaincode : Download Docker images : fabric-tools , fabric-orderer, peer , fabric-ccenv Start the Network with docker-compose by creating a yaml file in terminal 1 which starts the orderer, peer . On terminal 2 Build and start the chaincode from chaincode interpreter command line using go build . In other terminal 3 use the chaincode like install , instantiate , invoke and query from the cli (command line interface) When we invoke chaincode in terminal 3 Transactions will be seen on the terminal 2 We can install more chaincodes in terminal 3 cli and verify in terminal 3.
- 14. Hyperledger Tools Set of collaboration tools for building blockchain networks that make it simple and quick for development. Hyperledger Composer Composer is a tool for building blockchain business networks, It used to create smart contracts and blockchain applications to solve business problems. Hyperledger Explorer Explorer is a tool which provides a dashboard viewing information about transactions ,blocks and smart contracts available on the network. Hyperledger Cello Cello can build up a Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) platform quickly from the scratch. It reduce the effort required for creating, managing and terminating blockchains.
- 15. HyperLedger Composer Composer is a framework to accelerate the development of applications built on the top of Blockchain platform such as Hyperledger Fabric Start from the business level :model network assets, participants & transactions Build Applications that use API's to invoke transactions, that create, update &delete Assets are transfer between participants Assets, participants ,transactions are recorded on Blockchain registries Can easily integrate blockchain with existing business processes & system records Modelling language: The Hyperledger Composer modelling language is used in the business network definition to describe the assets, participants, and transactions in the business network
- 16. Prerequisites: Operating Systems: Ubuntu Linux 14.04 / 16.04 LTS (both 64-bit), or Mac OS 10.12 Docker Engine: Version 17.03 or higher Docker-Compose: Version 1.8 or higher Node: 8.9 or higher (note version 9 is not supported) npm: v5.x git: 2.9.x or higher composer-cli Yeoman generator composer-rest-server
- 18. Composer PlayGround The Hyperledger Composer Playground provides a user interface for the configuration, deployment and testing of a business network Without development environment setup we can still develop business network by playground In playground we can create or import network.bna file to generate or develop business network Playground mainly deals with assets, participants and transactions If we do anything in the business network that will be save in transaction history which cannot be change Define tab:- Define tab we can define and work with model for your business network Test tab:-can create assets and participants that were defined in the Define tab, and test the functionality of your business network..
- 19. Developing Business network in playground Click Deploy a new business network and give Click empty-business-network then Deploy the Business network To connect to our business network click Connect now under our business network card. Then add model file,script file and Access control file Click Update to deploy the changes to our business network Click the Test tab to test our Business network The first thing we should add to our business network is to add participants and assests. Click the Submit Transaction button to submit our transactions We can see all transactions in our business network by Click All Transactions
- 21. Deploying a business network to Hyperledger Fabric for a single organization Step-1 : Setup the development environment. - https://hyperledger.github.io/composer/unstable/installing/development-tools.html Step-2 : Build and start a Hyperledger Fabric network. - http://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/release/build_network.html Step-3 : Setup configuration tools cryptogen and configtxgen. Step-4 : Create a connection profile use to connect with the Fabric network. Step-5 : Locate the certificate and private key for the administrator.
- 22. Step-6 : Create a business network card that contains all of the information required to connect to the business network. i.e, It includes Connection profile, Private key and Certificate. Step-7 : Import the business network card for the Hyperledger Fabric administrator. Step-8 : Install Composer runtime onto all of the Hyperledger Fabric peer nodes, this is nothing but a chaincode install operation. Here we specify the name of the blockchain business network. Step-9 : Start the blockchain business network, this is chaincode instantiate operation. Step-10 : Import the business network card for the business network administrator. Step-11 : Check that the business network has been deployed successfully. Step-12: Generate a REST API based on the business network.
- 23. HyperLedger Composer Rest API
- 24. Deploying a Business network to Hyperledger Fabric for multiple organizations Multiple organization administrators configure their insatnces of Hyperledger composer to interact with the same channel in Hyperledger fabric. We can able to setup multiple organizations on single server or on multiple servers. Here Organizations are nothing but participants involved in the bussiness network. Each organization has its own peers to validate the transactions and orderer to confirm transactions. All the peers related to the organizations which are in the same channel are involved in validating transactions.
- 26. Hyperledger Explorer Docker image with an web-UI explorer for a running hyperledger chain User friendly web application provides a dashboard for hyperledger to view/query about blocks , transactions ,statistics and smartcontracts available on network. Users will be able to query for specific blocks or transactions and view the complete details. Future challenge is to integrate this explorer with other tools composer , cello for displaying the information .
- 27. Installation Setup Requirements: Hyperledger Explorer works with Hyperledger Fabric 1.0. Install the following software dependencies to manage fabric network. Install and invoke the transactions through CLI(command line interpreter) which will display transactions in the dashboard. o Nodejs 6.9.x or greater o Mysql 5.7 or greater o Docker 17.06.2-ce or greater o Docker-compose 1.14.0 or higher Setup mysql database to save transactions , blocks and chaincodes etc which are displayed in the dashboard. Fabric Network Setup where we create a channel with peers and orderers in a single network Run the Blockchian Explorer which displayed the dashboard in the localhost webpage.
- 30. Hyperledger Cello Overview Hyperledger Cello can build up a Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) platform quickly from the scratch. Provides UI for add/delete hosts, create chain, view active chains, in used chains. System status will give status of host type, host status , chain type, chain status. Cello should be deployed on multiple servers, at least 1 Master Node and 1 Worker Node. It gives instance response even with hundreds of chains or nodes.
- 31. Prerequisites Hardware: 8c16g100g Docker engine: 1.10.0~1.13.0 (Docker 17.0+ support is experimental) docker-compose: 1.8.0~1.12.0 Cello Environment Setup Master node setup. Worker node setup. Host setup(docker host or swarm).
- 32. Master Node Master node will run cello services(docker images) I.e., Nginx(is used as a reverse proxy to improve web performance). Mongo( is used as the backend database). Cello-dashboard( Provides the admin dashboard). Cello-watchdog(Monitors the status of the system e.g., chains' health). Cello-restserver(Core engine to do the provision, orchestration and management). It will manage the blockchain networks running inside the Worker nodes. It will add/manage/delete worker nodes. It can add chains for worker nodes.
- 33. Worker Node The servers to have blockchains running inside. worker nodes will be managed by the master node. Docker daemon should be in running. Blockchain network can be created with Hyperledger Fabric network, a SawthoothLake or Iroha chain. Now we are using Hyperledger Fabric.
- 35. Docker Docker is a tool designed to make it easier to create, deploy, and run applications by using containers. Containers allow a developer to package up an application with all of the parts it needs, such as libraries and other dependencies, and ship it all out as one package. So that developers need not worry about system setup, they can focus on writing code. Docker is a bit like a virtual machine. But unlike a virtual machine, rather than creating a whole virtual operating system, Docker allows applications to use the same Linux kernel as the system that they're running on and only requires applications be shipped with things not already running on the host computer.
- 36. Docker Swarm Docker swarm will connect multiple nodes. A Manager node can add multiple worker nodes. When a manager node runs a container, the replicas of that container will be added in worker node.
- 37. References https://hyperledger.github.io/composer/playground/playground-index.html https://hyperledger.github.io/composer/tutorials/deploy-to-fabric-multi-org.html http://cello.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://github.com/hyperledger/cello/blob/master/docs/terminology.md http://hyperledger.org/ http://hyperledger.org/projects/explorer https://github.com/hyperledger/blockchain-explorer ● https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=EvICyArbFSs