How does my peer communicate with fabric CA

Question

When a Fabric CA is running, how will my peer know which instance of fabric to call? It is listening to a port but there is no setting that defines which fabric CA to call..Do peers have to interact with CA to authenticate?

Answer 1

Peers do not communicate with CA directly.. For the peers to interact, a mechanism is configured.. This is called MSP service. To use this MSP service, create a $MY_PATH/mspconfig folder with admincerts, cacerts, signcerts and keystore as subdirectories You must then set the msconfig path in core.yaml for peer and orderer to the above path.. To know more, check out: https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/hyperledger-fabric/latest/hyperledger-fabric.pdf