fabric-operator

Hyperledger Fabric Operator

Overview

Fabric operator is the kubernetes operator to allow a user to stand up fabric CA, Orderer and Peer node using kubectl

Prerequisites

• kubectl v1.11.3+
• Access to a Kubernetes v1.11.3+ cluster
• A PersistentVolume storage location with AccessMode of ReadWriteOnce for each ca, peer, and orderer.

Getting Started

Start up fabric operator

$ kubectl apply \
  -f https://github.com/hyperledger/cello/blob/master/src/agent/fabric-operator/deploy/crds/fabric_v1alpha1_crd.yaml?raw=true

The command should finish successfully if you see messages like the below:

customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/cas.fabric.hyperledger.org created
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/orderers.fabric.hyperledger.org created
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/peers.fabric.hyperledger.org created

Once the operator crds get created, start up the controller using the following command

kubectl apply \
  -f https://github.com/hyperledger/cello/blob/master/src/agent/fabric-operator/deploy/fabric-operator.yaml?raw=true

The above command starts up the fabric operator controller in your default namespace of your k8s cluster. If you try to use a different namespace, you should download the fabric-operator.yaml file and change the namespace from default to whatever the namespace that you want to use.

Stand up a Fabric CA node

1. Download the example fabric ca spec file

wget https://github.com/hyperledger/cello/blob/master/src/agent/fabric-operator/deploy/crs/fabric_v1alpha1_ca_cr.yaml?raw=true -O myca.yaml

1. Make changes to the example ca spec file according to your needs. Here are the list of things that you can change in the example ca spec file. *. Node name *. CA admin user name and password *. CA certificates *. CA node release, resource allocation, configuration parameters
2. Run the following command to stand up the CA node::

kubectl apply -f myca.yaml

after few minutes, your CA node should be up running, you can see it status by using the following command:

kubectl describe ca

To delete the CA node, you can simply do the following command, assume you name your CA ca1st

kubectl delete ca ca1st

Stand up a Fabric Peer node

1. Download the example fabric peer spec file

wget https://github.com/hyperledger/cello/blob/master/src/agent/fabric-operator/deploy/crs/fabric_v1alpha1_peer_cr.yaml?raw=true -O mypeer.yaml

1. Make changes to the example peer spec file according to your needs. Here are the list of things that you can change in the example peer spec file. *. Node name *. MSP and TLS certs *. Peer node release, resource allocation, configuration parameters
2. Run the following command to stand up the Peer node

kubectl apply -f mypeer.yaml

after few minutes, your Peer node should be up running, you can see it status by using the following command:

kubectl describe peer

To delete the peer node, you can simply do the following command, assume you named your peer peer1st:

kubectl delete peer peer1st

Stand up a Fabric Orderer node

1. Download the example fabric orderer spec file

wget https://github.com/hyperledger/cello/blob/master/src/agent/fabric-operator/deploy/crs/fabric_v1alpha1_orderer_cr.yaml?raw=true -O myorderer.yaml

1. Make changes to the example orderer spec file according to your needs. Here are the list of things that you can change in the example orderer spec file. *. Node name *. MSP and TLS certs *. Orderer node release, resource allocation, configuration parameters
2. Run the following command to stand up the Peer node::

kubectl apply -f myorderer.yaml

after few minutes, your orderer node should be up running, you can see it status by using the following command:

kubectl describe orderer

To delete the orderer node, you can simply do the following command, assume you name your orderer orderer1st

kubectl delete orderer orderer1st

Fabric Operator from the API / Dashboard

To run the operator using the cello API or dashboard follow the instructions here :- Fabric Operator Agent README

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