How to Use This Guide

Welcome to the CertChain Blockchain Credentialing demo on Red Hat OpenShift.

This lab guide walks you through a complete blockchain credentialing scenario — from issuing tamper-proof academic certificates on Hyperledger Fabric to verifying them through a public portal, and exploring the platform management capabilities underneath.

Overview

Suggested Demo Paths

30-Minute Path (Business Focus):

  1. Business Context — Why blockchain for credentials

  2. Issue Certificates — Issue certs from TechPulse

  3. Verify a Certificate — Employer verification flow

  4. Student Transcript — Login and view private data

60-Minute Path (Full Platform):

  1. All of the above, plus:

  2. Security & Identity — Keycloak brokering, RBAC, MSP

  3. Monitoring — ArgoCD and Grafana dashboards

  4. Scalability — Adding orgs, horizontal scaling

  5. Resilience — BFT consensus, fault tolerance demos

  6. API Walkthrough — curl commands from terminal

Demo credentials, environment URLs, and API reference are available in the Reference section.