Hyperledger Fabric v1.0 on a Raspberry Pi Docker Swarm – Part 4

And now for the thrilling conclusion to… HLv1_RPiDS! (<— a what now?)

In this section we’ll go over the steps I take to launch the network and talk through some of the configuration sections to watch out for as you setup your own.

But first a quick proof of work demonstration:

Hyperledger Fabric v1.0 on a Raspberry Pi Docker Swarm – Part 3

As I said in my last post this step is fairly easy and overall gave me the least amount of trouble.

Before we dive in I want to mention some prerequisite equipment you’ll need. You should have at least 3 Raspberry Pis (<– this looks so wrong to me… Pies?) to setup up a true Raspberry Pi Docker Swarm. This means you’ll need SD card for each and a way to power them, I recommend a USB power hub like this (something with 60 watts and 6 ports).

Hyperledger Fabric v1.0 on a Raspberry Pi Docker Swarm – Part 2

I want to thank all of the people who commented on my first post about this project, I can’t believe how much time has passed since I first wrote about this. I actually did get it running but ran out of time to document it all while getting it working… I planned show it at a conference for work and ran into significant hurdles along the way so my documentation slipped a bit. I’m going to finish this out thanks to the extra motivation I received from everyones interest. So let’s get to it!

Mastering the build step is a pretty decent challenge. In this article I’ll pass along some tips and hints on how I pulled it off.

Hyperledger Fabric v1.0 on a Raspberry Pi Docker Swarm – Part 1

There have already been articles published on the use cases for using IoT with a private Blockchain. The possibilities are really exciting but what if we could run the blockchain ON our IoT network. That sounds like a fun project to me!

With that goal in mind and a bit of research I was led to Hyperledger Fabric. To learn more about it check this out: Hyperledger Overview. Getting Hyperledger Fabric to run on Raspberry Pi presented several major hurdles:

No one had compiled the project for the ARM architecture before.
There wasn’t any documentation on how to run the Hyperledger on a Docker Swarm.

But hurdles are what make projects fun right? So lets go through the steps so that you can setup your own.

Lets get started!