Corda doorman for dummies

Question

I need to create a doorman in my test corda network but I do not understand how to do it.

I can't find any tutorial for the Corda doorman.

This page seems to be the only source of info on the doorman service: Network permissioning(Doorman) It is really difficult to implement the doorman service just using this page.

I don't know what to do, can somebody explain the doorman for dummies?

Answer 1

Pierre, I don't advise implementing your own Doorman - this would not be your time well-spent. Instead I suggest use standard tools and procedures to create, sign and distribute certificates to Corda nodes as specified in the ‘Network Permissioning’ section of the docs.

For when you start planning to deploy Corda to run real-world production workloads you would also be looking for a supported way of automating the management of network membership. Production deployments of Corda would also have other enterprise-grade requirements such as HA, DR, performance, manageability, compliance and security. These requirements will be addressed by upcoming release of Corda Enterprise. Naturally Doorman - the component which handles the management of network membership - will be part of Corda Enterprise.

For development and testing purposes there will be a stand-alone installable Doorman package with restricted license for non-production use.