Hyperledger Sawtooth for System Administrators

Last Update: Feb 25, 2024

Hyperledger Sawtooth for System Administrators

Free

About Course

Learn how to build blockchain applications with Hyperledger Sawtooth. This self-paced course will prepare you for Certified Hyperledger Sawtooth Administrator certification exam.

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Blockchain technology is disrupting many traditional businesses. Blockchain technology has moved beyond the hype and there exist hundreds of networks in production today. Some of the production blockchain solutions in production today are built with Hyperledger Sawtooth.

Learning Objectives

In this course, you will learn the following:

Installing Hyperledger Sawtooth
Configuring Hyperledger Sawtooth
Designing a namespace and address
Implementing a transaction family
Building a transaction processor
Granting permission on the Sawtooth network
Developing client applications with the Sawtooth REST API and SDK
How identity management works in Sawtooth
How to mange lifecycle in Sawtooth
How to do troubleshooting in Sawtooth

Topics and Subtopics

Here is the list of topics and subtopics covered in this course.

1- Hyperledger Blockchain Ecosystem

In this section, we review Hyperledger ecosystem and projects for building blockchain applications. This section describes the organization of the Hyperledger Foundation, its history, and leadership. In addition, we provide an introduction to the open source projects in the portfolio.

An introduction to the Hyperledger family begins with a description of the foundation, organization, and leadership. We then describe each project in the foundation which are divided into groups: Distributed Ledgers, Libraries, Tools, and Domain-Specific projects..
The framework projects describe: Besu, Burrow, Fabric, Indy, IROHA, and Sawtooth.
The Libraries projects describe: Aries, Quilt, Transact, and Ursa
The Tools projects describe: Avalon, Caliper, Cello, and Explorer
The Domain-Specific projects describe: Grid
Building the Hyperledger framework layers describes the structure of the projects and how they are intended to complement, leverage, and work together.
The Hyperledger design philosophy at a glance is a brief discussion on the general design approach and methodology used to select and develop projects within the ecosystem.
Framework architecture overview describes at a high-level the layers and components required for implementing blockchain technology.
The consensus layer describes and covers the various algorithms used to implement consensus within a blockchain. Fabric and Sawtooth will be used as examples.
Smart contracts are programs used to execute the specific application logic for a blockchain. We will describe the different designs and methods for implementing smart contracts in Hyperledger comparing Fabric with Sawtooth.
Databases are used for the immutable ledger and for storing state data. We will describe the different options available for Fabric.
Peer networking is a primary component of any blockchain, so we provide a brief description of the network architecture used to create a Fabric blockchain.
Quiz

2- Install

Install Sawtooth packages
Start component services
Generate keys
Register validator
Configure peering
Verify install and fix if necessary
Connect transaction processor to validator
Create genesis block
Verify system meets hardware requirements

3- Configuration

Configure validator peering and network
Configure consensus
Configure logging
Configure REST API
Configure layer 3 network ports/firewall
Configure metrics
Configure transaction processor endpoint
Configure systemd services
Choose parallel / sync scheduler
Configure storage paths
Configure Sawtooth CLI

4- Permissioning, Identity Management, and Security

Identify network ID / system / peer ID
Permission a transaction processor
Policy management
Validator registration
System permissions
Configure validator local policy file
Validator key permissioning
Role management: transactor roles
Role management: network roles
Configure transactor permissions
Secure connections between components
Use a proxy server to authorize the REST API
Securing connecting between validators
Manage validator keys and secrets

5- Lifecycle

Create new network
Joining an existing network
Remove validator node from the network
Rejoin network after network failure
Restart validator after crash or maintenance
Restart components after crash or maintenance
Add new transaction processor
Changing consensus mode
Change network configuration
Update Sawtooth software
Update transaction processor version

6- Troubleshooting

Troubleshoot network communication
Troubleshoot REST API
Troubleshoot consensus
Troubleshoot transaction processor
Identify and resolve chain fork
Fix validator
Enable Sawtooth monitoring
Monitor network topology
Troubleshoot deployment
Troubleshoot resource constraints

Requirements

Basic knowledge of Linux commands and good knowledge of Node.JS is required.

If you are not familiar with blockchain technology, taking our Intro to Blockchain course is required prior to taking this class.

After finishing this class, it is highly recommended to take our Blockchain Management in Hyperledger for System Admins course.

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