Watch Me Build A Blockchain Insurance App (5 Videos)

WATCH ME BUILD A BLOCKCHAIN INSURANCE APP

Video # 1 - Introduction and Google Cloud server setup

This video shows you how to create a brand new virtual machine (VM) on Google Cloud.  
To create your own free Google Cloud account, go to 
https://cloud.google.com/free/
To download PuTTY go to https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

Video # 2 - Install Docker, Docker Compose, and Git

1. SET UP THE REPOSITORY

1.1. Update the apt package index:
$ sudo apt-get update

1.2. Install packages to allow apt to use a repository over HTTPS:
$ sudo apt-get install \
apt-transport-https \
ca-certificates \
curl \
gnupg-agent \
software-properties-common

1.3. Add Docker’s official GPG key:
$ curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -

1.4. Verify that you now have the key with the fingerprint 9DC8 5822 9FC7 DD38 854A E2D8 8D81 803C 0EBF CD88, by searching for the last 8 characters of the fingerprint.
$ sudo apt-key fingerprint 0EBFCD88

1.5. Set up the stable repository
$ sudo add-apt-repository \
   "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
   $(lsb_release -cs) \
   stable"

2. INSTALL DOCKER ENGINE - COMMUNITY (CE)

2.1. Update the apt package index.
$ sudo apt-get update
 
2.2. Identify the candidate for installation
$ apt-cache policy docker-ce

2.3. Install the latest version of Docker Engine - Community and containerd (it installs git as well):
$ sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

2.4. Verify that Docker Engine - Community is installed correctly by running the hello-world image.
$ sudo docker run hello-world

2.5. Verify Docker version
$ sudo docker -v

3. INSTALL DOCKEWR COMPOSE

3.1. Download the current stable release of Docker Compose:
$ sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.24.1/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

3.2. Set the permissions:
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

3.3. Check the version:
$ docker-compose --version

Video # 3 - Install Node.js, the Node.js Package Manager (NPM), and the Node.js Version Manager (NVM)

1. Refresh your local package index by typing:
$ sudo apt update
2. Install Node.js from the repositories:
$ sudo apt install nodejs
3. Install npm
$ sudo apt install npm
4. Install nvm
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev
$ curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh -o install_nvm.sh
$ bash install_nvm.sh
$ source ~/.profile
$ nvm ls-remote

Video # 4 - Install Python

1. Install Prerequisites
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall
$ sudo apt-get install libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev

2. Download Python 2.7
$ cd /usr/src
$ sudo curl -o Python-2.7.16.tgz https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.16/Python-2.7.16.tgz
$ sudo tar xzf Python-2.7.16.tgz

3. Compile Python Source
$ cd Python-2.7.16
$ sudo ./configure --enable-optimizations
$ sudo make altinstall

Video # 5 - Run the Blockchain Insurance App

1. Clone the repository:
$ sudo git clone https://github.com/IBM/build-blockchain-insurance-app
2. Login using your docker hub credentials.
$ sudo docker login
3. Run the build script
$ cd build-blockchain-insurance-app
$ sudo ./build_ubuntu.sh
4. Check the status of installation using command:
$ sudo docker logs web

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