Deploy Hyperledger Fabric Network using Kubernetes

The objective of this post is to implement a basic fabric network on Kubernetes platform.The indent is to understand the architecture behind kubernetes deployment of fabric network by going through each step .

We will be deploy one master node , two worker nodes and a NFS server to share network artifacts and chain code data across the nodes.

Keeping it simple we will be deploying the Hyperledger Fabric network consisting of one organization, maintaining one peer node, one orderer with 'solo' ordering service. We will create a channel , join peer to the channel , install chaincode on peer and instantiate chaincode on channel. Also invoke transactions against the deployed chaincode.

Installation

Install Kubernetes ,initialize cluster, add worker nodes to the Kubernetes Cluster.We will mount PersistantVolumes as NFS.Configureyour NFS file server VM and mount the NFS share on all the nodes.

Generate the Network Artifacts

Generate the network artifacts using configtx.yaml, crypto-config.yaml.If you intent to modify the network topology, change the configuration files (.yaml files) appropriately.

Copy (or use bind) the files from network artifacts , crypto and chaincode directory to NFS share.

Deployment Model

NameSpace

1. fabrick8s

Services

1. Orderer
2. Peer
3. Docker Dind

Deployments

1. Orderer
2. Peer
3. Docker Dind ( For ChainCode container Docker in Docker)
4. CLI For executing peer commands (Optional --- create k8s jobs instead)

Persistent Volume Claim

Persistent Volume ( NFS)

Start the network

Now lets start the network by running scripts one by one.

cd fabric-k8s/k8s

kubectl create -f 1namespace.yaml
kubectl create -f 2pv-pvc.yaml
kubectl create -f 3orderer0-orgorderer1-deploy.yaml
kubectl create -f 4peer0-org1-deploy.yaml
kubectl create -f 5docker.yaml
kubectl create -f 6docker-volume.yaml
kubectl create -f 7org1-cli-deploy.yaml\

Verify the deployments in the dashboard

Create , join , Update Channel

Manually enter into the CLI.
kubectl get pods --- all-namespaces
kubectl exec -it cli-2XXXXX3 bash --- namespace=fabrick8s\

peer channel create -o orderer0-orgorderer1:32000 -c $CHANNEL_NAME -f ./channel-artifacts/channel.tx --- outputBlock ./channel-artifacts/rtrchannel01.block

peer channel fetch newest -o orderer0-orgorderer1:32000 -c $CHANNEL_NAME

peer channel join -b ${CHANNEL_NAME}_newest.block

Install ChainCode

peer chaincode install -n rtrcc -v 1.0 -p github.com/hyperledger/fabric/examples/chaincode/chaincode_example02/go

Instantiate ChainCode

peer chaincode instantiate -o orderer0-orgorderer1:32000 -C $CHANNEL_NAME -n rtrcc -v 1.0 -c '{"Args":["init","a","100","b","200"]}' -P "AND('Org1MSP.member')"

Invoke ChainCode

peer chaincode invoke -C $CHANNEL_NAME -n rtrcc -c '{"Args":["invoke","a","b","10"]}'

peer chaincode query -C $CHANNEL_NAME -n rtrcc -c '{"Args":["query","a"]}'

You would see that the chain code container is getting started inside the docker-dind pod as a sidecar container.

References

https://applatix.com/case-docker-docker-kubernetes-part-2