Hyperledger Fabric 2.x - First Practical Blockchain [2022]

About Hyperledger Fabric 2.x - First Practical Blockchain [2022]

UPDATE: Course radically updated to include latest Fabric 2.x. Watch the first video for details

So you want to

deploy a blockchain

but are overwhelmed by the sea of information out there that is half-baked and seems to want to do too much at the same time. If so,

this course is for you

. We will start by

explaining exactly what a blockchain is from a technical perspective

instead of a high-level business overview. We start from absolute zero,

assume no background

and give the details only as much as necessary. Then, we move on to the highly popular and industry backed blockchain framework --

Hyperledger Fabric

and

its high-level library --

Composer

. We explain how to set everything up and then move to creating our first blockchain and then a

smart contract

. We will also cover how this blockchain can be used from an

existing application using a REST API

. This would enable you to start using blockchains

in your own applications

that can benefit from a blockchain or distributed ledger. We take a

case study-based approach

and motivate why we need the commands we're running and how everything fits together. If there is a concept that is typically covered in similar courses but isn't immediately necessary for deploying our first smart contract, we'll skip it. We aim to have our f

irst smart contract up and running in about an hour

and then integrate with it from outside the Fabric environment by the end of this course --

a total of about 1.5 hours

. There is also a

real-time chat system

in place for students who enroll in this course. With a free signup, you get access to real-time chat with myself and fellow students who are working to complete this course (or have completed the course before you). We plan on creating this network of like-minded experts who can help each other out and collaborate on exciting ideas together.

What will I learn?

Basics of a

hash

How this simple concepts enable the

powerful blockchain

architecture

Install and configure

Hyperledger Fabric using the easiest method

available

Install and run Composer -- a

high-level, easy to use interface to Fabric

Set up a

REST API

to use our blockchain from outside Fabric

Use a REST API

testing application and then PHP

to access data from our blockchain

Use the Latest Fabric 2.x

About the instructor:

Teacher and researcher by profession

PhD in Security and a PostDoc

from Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany

17+ years of working

15+ years of teaching experience

10+ years of working professionally

as a Linux System Administrator -- including 5+ years of provable track record on UpWork (with 5.0 star rating there)

What you need to know:

No prerequisites are assumed.

UPDATES

Updated videos and files for commands changed in the next release of the official docs (just 5 days after the release of the course).

Added Fabric 2.x details now.