README.md

Hyperledger Bevel

• Short Description
• Scope of Project
  • Getting Started
  • Hyperledger Fabric
  • Corda Enterprise
  • Corda Opensource
  • Hyperledger Indy
  • Quorum
  • Hyperledger Besu
  • Substrate
• Contact
• Contributing
• Initial Committers
• Sponsor

Short Description

An automation framework and helm charts for rapidly and consistently deploying production-ready Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) platforms.

Scope of Project

Hyperledger Bevel is an automation framework for rapidly and consistently deploying production-ready DLT platforms to cloud infrastructure.

Hyperledger Bevel is an accelerator/tool that helps developers rapidly set up and deploy secure, scalable and production-ready DLT network(s) that also allows new organizations to be easily on-boarded on the network. Bevel facilitates a safe and secure way of deploying and operating different DLT platforms.

It includes:

• Helm charts to deploy different DLT nodes and to generate the related crypto/identities.
• Helm charts for various operational features like adding new nodes, and deploying smart contracts.
• Helm charts to deploy Hyperledger Cacti connectors for Fabric, Quorum and Besu networks.
• Ansible playbooks and modular role definitions to automate the deployment of Helm charts.
• Ansible playbooks and roles to automate deployment of Hyperledger fabric using bevel-operator-fabric (Kubernetes operator for managing Hyperledger Fabric networks).
• Integrated CD using GitOps so that once the network is set up, all changes can be done via git PRs/merges.
• Configuration for Ambassador Edge Stack, HAProxy (for Hyperledger Fabric) and Istio Ingress (for Substrate) to act as Ingress Controller.

Hyperledger Bevel currently supports R3 Corda OS and Enterprise, Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Indy, Hyperledger Besu, Quorum and Substrate. Other DLT platforms can easily be added.

Getting Started

To get started with the framework quickly, follow our Getting Started guidelines.

Detailed operator and developer documentation is available on our ReadTheDocs site.

The documentation can also be built locally be following instructions in the docs folder.

Hyperledger Fabric

For Hyperledger Fabric, there are two ways to deploy the network.

• Using helm install: Follow the Fabric Charts readme.

• Using Ansible: A number of different Ansible scripts will allow you to either create a new network (across clouds) or join an existing network.

  

Corda Enterprise

For Corda Enterprise, there are two ways to deploy the network.

• Using helm install: Follow the Corda Enterprise Charts readme.

• Using Ansible: A number of different Ansible scripts will allow you to either create a new network (across clouds) or join an existing network.

  

Corda Opensource

For Corda Opensource, there are two ways to deploy the network.

• Using helm install: Follow the Corda Charts readme.

• Using Ansible: A number of different Ansible scripts will allow you to either create a new network (across clouds) or join an existing network.

  

Hyperledger Indy

For Hyperledger Indy, there are two ways to deploy the network.

• Using helm install: Follow the Indy Charts readme.
• Using Ansible: A number of different Ansible scripts will allow you to create a new network (across clouds).

Quorum

For Quorum, there are two ways to deploy the network.

• Using helm install: Follow the Quorum Charts readme.

• Using Ansible: A number of different Ansible scripts will allow you to either create a new network (across clouds) with choice of Consensus and a transaction Manager.

  

Hyperledger Besu

For Hyperledger Besu, there are two ways to deploy the network.

• Using helm install: Follow the Besu Charts readme.

• Using Ansible: A number of different Ansible scripts will allow you to create a new network (across clouds).

  

Substrate

For Substrate, there are two ways to deploy the network.

• Using helm install: Follow the Substrate Charts readme.

• Using Ansible: A number of different Ansible scripts will allow you to create a new network (across clouds).

  

Contact

We welcome your questions & feedback on our Discord channel. Please join our Discord first.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to Hyperledger Bevel in many forms, and there’s always plenty to do!

Please review contributing guidelines to get started.

Build

If you are not using the provided Jenkins automation scripts, you can run the provisioning scripts within a docker runtime independent of your target Kubernetes cluster.

# Build provisioning image
docker build . -t ghcr.io/hyperledger/bevel-build

# Run the provisioning scripts
docker run -it -v $(pwd):/home/bevel/ ghcr.io/hyperledger/bevel-build

Initial Committers

• tkuhrt
• jonathan-m-hamilton
• sownak

Sponsor

Mark Wagner (Github: n1zyz, email: mwagner@redhat.com) - TSC Member