Fabric Operations Labs

Owned by Ry Jones
Last updated: Nov 08, 2023 by David Boswell
2 min read

Note: The information below is now out of date – check out the Fabric Ecosystem page for a more up to date view of Fabric related projects and labs.


What labs projects do we have that are related to Fabric operations?  This is a list I made going through github, so you may disagree how related some of these projects are (or you may want to add some that I left off–there is some gray area).  Red indicates the lab is archived. Graduated

Initial groups to reach out to:

  1. HLF Operator (Kubernetes):  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/hlf-operator ("kungfu operator")
  2. Bevel (formerly Blockchain Automation Framework lab)
  3. Cello: https://github.com/hyperledger/cello 
  4. fabric-test network operator : https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric-test/tree/main/tools/operator 
  5. Fablo (Docker): https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fablo
  6. Minifabric:  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/minifabric
  7. Fabric Performance Sandbox: https://labs.hyperledger.org/labs/PerformanceSandBox.html 

Other groups to reach out to:

  1. Fabric Operations Console:  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabric-operations-console
  2. Microfab :  https://github.com/IBM-Blockchain/microfab 
  3. Hyperledger Fabric Operator https://github.com/KompiTech/hyperledger-fabric-operator (KompiTech) 
  4. Kubernetes Operator for Hyperledger Fabric https://github.com/raftAtGit/hl-fabric-operator  (Hakan Eryargi +/- Accenture) 
  5. Hyperledger Fabric K8S Operator https://github.com/litong01/fabric-operator (Tong Li) 
  6. Kaleido https://www.kaleido.io  
  7. Fabric Token SDK:  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabric-token-sdk
  8. Xilinx Blockchain Machine for Fabric (hardware accelerator):  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabric-machine
  9. HLF Connector (REST interface):  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/hlf-connector
  10. Fabex (block explorer):  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabex
  11. MirBFT (consensus algorithm, originally intended for Fabric):  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/mirbft
  12. Fabric Smart Client:  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabric-smart-client
  13. Fabric-chaincode-ocaml (Ocaml support for Fabric smart contracts):  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabric-chaincode-ocaml
  14. Operations Smart Contract (OpsSC) for Hyperledger Fabric v2.x:  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabric-opssc
  15. Fabric-chaincode-wasm:  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabric-chaincode-wasm
  16. Fabric-chaincode-Haskell:  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabric-chaincode-haskell
  17. Convector (Fabric operations):  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/convector
  18. Keyhole-Fabric-API-Gateway (Restful API):  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/keyhole-fabric-api-gateway
  19. Fabric Block Archiving: https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabric-block-archiving
  20. Chaincode Analyzer:  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/chaincode-analyzer
  21. Nephos (Fabric to Kubernetes):https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/nephos
  22. Blockchain Analyzer:  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/blockchain-analyzer
  23. Fabric Consortium Management:  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabric-consortium-management
  24. Fabric Chrome Extension:  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabric-chrome-extension
  25. Fabric-VMS-Provision (Ansible):  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabric-vms-provision
  26. Blockchain network on kubernetes: https://github.com/IBM/blockchain-network-on-kubernetes

2022 Hyperledger Mentorship Programs

  1. Enable Kubernetes Operators support for Fablo : https://lf-hyperledger.atlassian.net/wiki/display/INTERN/Enable+Kubernetes+Operators+support+for+Fablo 
  2. Expand Minifabric with k8s operator support : https://lf-hyperledger.atlassian.net/wiki/display/INTERN/Expand+Minifabric+with+k8s+operator+support 


There are 23 labs related to Fabric operations!  Some of them are of course archived.  We have 12 non-archived labs (so at least a little bit active).  

Of these, it seems like Fabric Operations Console, HLF Operator, Fablo, Fabric Smart Client, Operations Smart Contract, and Minifabric serve very related objectives.  Would it be possible to convince them to work together?  Cello may also want to be a participant.

Comments:

  1. Yes, we should certainly try to encourage these groups to work together.  My thought is we might need to segment this a bit more though to figure out where there are the best opportunities for engagement.  Just because a lab is doing something related to Fabric doesn't mean they'll be interested in another lab related to Fabric.  For instance, the hardware acceleration Xilinx is doing would be relevant for other performance related labs, like Tape or Performance SandBox, but it doesn't seem like there's necessarily much in common with other labs that have something to do with Fabric.  Another example of segmenting is finding all of the labs interested in Fabric and Kubernetes and trying to bring them together.