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id: quickstart title: Quick Start sidebar_label: Quick Start

Docker

The easiest way to see a D-TA in action is to run it in a Docker container. The default settings will run a single D-TA that acts as Principal, Master Fiduciary and Beneficiary.

git clone https://github.com/apache/incubator-milagro-dta.git

cd incubator-milagro-dta

docker build -t milagrodta .

docker run -it -p 5558:5556 milagrodta

Now you can test if the D-TA is running by hitting http://localhost:8888/v1/status

You should see something like...

{
"application": "Milagro Distributed Trust",
"timeStamp": "2019-08-29T11:11:15.9089824Z",
"apiVersion": "v1",
"nodeCID": "QmckgCeQRenUk7WHPcD5fxjLxScxyKp5QY1P7GW69NZnR1",
"extensionVendor": "Milagro",
"plugin": "milagro"
}

Hitting the API

The details of the API can be seen here...

Milagro D-TA can easily be integrated with an existing back office system, called from a front-end application or called from CURL, Postman, Swagger etc.

The API has three parts to it:

1. Identity Endpoints - that support creation and retrieval of identity documents
2. Order Endpoints
   1. Creates orders for new public keys
   2. Requests for secret keys to be revealed (redeemed)
   3. Allows orders to be searched and listed
3. Fulfillment RPC - these are the server-to-server remnote procedure calls that enable a Principal D-TA to communicate with a Master Fiduciary D-TA

Example - To create a new Identity

curl -X POST "http://localhost:8888/v1/identity" -H "accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{\"name\":\"thisNode\"}"