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Bevel Fabric Operator v1.7: Operations Console & GRPC Web

Bevel Fabric Operator v1.7: Operations Console & GRPC Web

Looking for the latest version? See Bevel Fabric Operator v1.10.0 for the most recent release with FabricIdentity CRD, enhanced certificate handling, and more.

Kubectl Plugin

The following features have been released:

  • Create Fabric Operations Console
  • Create Bevel Fabric Operator UI
  • Create Bevel Fabric Operator API

Minor features

In Discord there's a lot of activity about problems that come up, troubleshooting and solutions.

  • Allow to configure image pull secrets for peer, orderer and CA
  • Check commit readiness to check how many organizations have approved
  • Allow to specify the host and port for the Fabric CA when creating a Peer and an Orderer Node

Fabric Operations Console integration

You can now deploy the Fabric Operations Console by IBM using the hlf-operator and the latest kubectl plugin.

You can find the official documentation here

Bevel Fabric Operator UI integration

The goal of the Bevel Fabric Operator UI is to provide a simple way to deploy and manage HLF networks.

For now, the functionality is very limited in order:

  • View CAs deployed
  • View orderers deployed
  • View peers deployed

Apart from this, there's a web interface that will show the channels the network config has configured:

https://labs.hyperledger.org/hlf-operator/docs/operator-ui/deploy-operator-api#create-operator-api-with-explorer

Enabling this option will show a

Channels
link in order to see:

  • Channel configuration
  • Data from blocks (including PDC)
  • Peers belonging to the channel
  • Height of each peer

GRPC Web integration

GRPC Web now can be enable in order to use fabric-operations-console:

Kubectl plugin bug fixes and new features

The following issues have been fixed related to the kubectl plugin:

  • Configurable batch size limit #96
  • Add custom CA attributes to the user in Fabric CA #101
  • Use custom CouchDB image #86
  • Inspect command filter by orderers #93