Updating the network
With the BNA file published and tagged to a release, we will now look at the process to install/update the business network in our consortium. More specifically, we will look at the following steps:
- Release notification
- Business Network update
Notifying the consortium
There are a few ways and techniques that can be applied to ensure that every organization is notified that a business network is ready to be updated.
The one thing that is for certain is that manual notification is not an option; as the number of smart contracts and participants grows, you need a reliable notification process.
The following diagram depicts a potential process for deploying a business network following the delivery of a new release:
As we've previously discussed, we do not distribute the BNA as this would create the opportunity for someone to tamper with the archive. Instead, the notification only informs every organization of the existence of a new release and lets the consortium retrieve and...
