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Network Concepts

Network Concepts

We will see how we can deploy a basic hyperledger fabric network to enable local development.

Hyperledger Fabric forms a distributed network and in order to run on a single machine, we use docker containers to run individual distributed components. Each component runs in a separate container instance and connects to other containers to form a network.

Understanding Docker #

A Docker container image is a lightweight, standalone, executable package of software that includes everything needed to run an application: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries and settings. Understanding docker and docker-compose is crucial to understanding the dev environment we will use in this course.

Please visit the following links to get a basic knowledge ...