Features list and Changelog
This list will be updated frequently to reflect the changes in features and scope of Forma.
- Network's infrastructure can run on:
- WorldSibu’s servers as a fully managed service.
- Your own Google Cloud Kubernetes cluster.
- Your own IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service.
- Your own Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes.
- Your own Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service.
- Your own DigitalOcean Kubernetes.
- Your own vanilla cluster.
- Add and remove more organizations from networks and channels on the fly with a single click.
- Every component self-recovers (including orderer) with a slight delay.
- Orderer RAFT-based service.
- 1 peer per organization (self-recoverable).
- 1 CouchDB per peer. No SSL (http). Password protected.
- Backend API to read all data and components in your organization.
Changelog
07-15-2019 - Production Release
- Can add and remove organizations on the fly for networks and channels
- RAFT is the only ordering service type (instead of Kafka)
05-20-2019 - Beta 2.1
- CouchDB protected by a password (still no SSL).
- Read-only API to access all the structures.
05-08-2019 - Beta 2.0
- Network's infrastructure can run on:
- WorldSibu’s servers as a fully managed service.
- Your own Google Cloud Kubernetes cluster.
- Your own IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service.
- Your own Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes.
- Your own DigitalOcean Kubernetes.
- Service accounts can now be created with custom attributes.
- Minor bug fixes.
04-29-2019 - Beta 1.0
- All the infrastructure runs on WorldSibu’s servers or your own Google Cloud Kubernetes cluster.
- Maximum of 10 organizations per network.
- Every component self-recovers (including orderer) with a slight delay.
- Minor bug fixes.
03-01-2019 - Beta release
- All the infrastructure runs on WorldSibu’s servers.
- Can’t add more organizations after a network is created.
- Maximum of 5 organizations per network.
- Non-fault tolerant orderer.
- 1 peer per organization.
- 1 CouchDB per pee. No SSL (http). No password protection.
- Permissive consensus algorithm.
We try to manage every network really carefully while in BETA however beware of the BETA status and its potential limitations/issues.