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saichand
saichand

Reputation: 1295

How to plug consensus in Hyperledger Fabric

I am learning hyperledger fabric How to change the consensus mechanism in hyperledger fabric implementation. What does it mean by pluggable consensus in the first place? Is it possible for us to change the consensus mechanism or we have to use only the available consensus mechanisms given in the documentation. can anyone give some comments on this.

Upvotes: 1

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Answers (1)

saichand
saichand

Reputation: 1295

I myself found answers for some of the questions posted...

  • For changing the Consensus mechanism in the hyperledger fabric, go to the configtx file of the hyperledger fabric and choose any of the two available consensus mechanisms such as KAFKA or SOLO.
  • Pluggable consensus means that the way nodes in the network are communicating is being implemented using a method or procedure called consensus. An efficient consensus protocol would add to the performance of the system.
  • Since hyperledger is an opensource implementation, we can download the hypderledger fabric on to our system and get our own method of implementation of consensus.
  • To my knowledge, IBM and other organizations are trying to develop other mechanisms also for consensus to plug into Hyperledger Fabric.

Upvotes: 3

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