Blockchain Development with Hyperledger
by Salman A. Baset, Luc Desrosiers, Nitin Gaur, Petr Novotny
Bootstrapping Fabric CA
Fabric CA can be configured with a LDAP server or run in a standalone mode. When running in a standalone mode, it must be configured with a bootstrap identity that gets stored in the backend database of Fabric CA. By default, a SQLite database is used but, for production usages, a PostgreSQL or a MySQL database can be configured. Typically, the connection between the Fabric CA server and its database is over TLS if a standalone server is used.
For the rest of the chapter, we will refer to the bootstrap entity when running without the LDAP server as the ca-admin. The ca-admin and its password must be supplied on a bootstrap of the Fabric CA, when running without LDAP server.
In order for the ca-admin to interact with ...
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