System and method for managing a blockchain cloud service

A method for managing a blockchain cloud service, comprising:

• providing a container runtime service;
• and
• providing a distributed ledger and a management console component in the container runtime service;
• wherein the management console component includes:
• a plurality of client application programming interfaces (APIs) configured to be invoked by a client application, and
• a plurality of backend APIs for communicating with a plurality of nodes of the distributed ledger,
• wherein the plurality of client APIs use one or more of the plurality of backend APIs in provisioning the distributed ledger as a blockchain cloud service and in managing the blockchain cloud service.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, including instructions stored thereon which when read and executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform steps comprising:

• providing a container runtime cloud service;
• and
• providing a distributed ledger and a management console component in the container runtime service;
• wherein the management console component includes:
• a plurality of client application programming interfaces (APIs) configured to be invoked by a client application, and
• a plurality of backend APIs for communicating with a plurality of nodes of the distributed ledger,
• wherein the plurality of client APIs use one or more of the plurality of backend APIs in provisioning the distributed ledger as a blockchain cloud service and in the managing blockchain cloud service.

A system for managing a blockchain cloud service, comprising:

• a container runtime service;
• and
• a distributed ledger and a management console component in the container runtime service;
• wherein the management console component includes:
• a plurality of client application programming interfaces (APIs) configured to be invoked by a client application, and
• a plurality of backend APIs for communicating with a plurality of nodes of the distributed ledger,
• wherein the plurality of client APIs use one or more of the plurality of backend APIs in provisioning the distributed ledger as a blockchain cloud service, and in managing the blockchain cloud service, the blockchain cloud service comprising a peer container, an ordering container, and a chaincode container;
• and
• wherein managing the blockchain cloud service comprises at least one of starting or stopping the peer container and starting or stopping the ordering container.