title: How to access the local hyperledger fabric
body: <p>I'm not a blockchain/VS Code/Docker expert - followed the <a href="https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/ibm-blockchain-platform-vscode-smart-contract/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Develop a smart contract with the IBM Blockchain Platform VS Code extension tutorial</a> and could create and update the asset successfully. Later I continued <a href="https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/services/blockchain/howto?topic=blockchain-develop-vscode#develop-vscode-submitting-transactions" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2DJy6.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2DJy6.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>The Hyperledger fabric was installed via the Hyperledger Composer Extension for VSCode and is running on Docker on my Mac.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ docker images
  hyperledger/fabric-ca                                                                                                           1.4.1               3a1799cda5d7        3 months ago        252MB
  hyperledger/fabric-tools                                                                                                        1.4.1               432c24764fbb        3 months ago        1.55GB
  hyperledger/fabric-ccenv                                                                                                        1.4.1               d7433c4b2a1c        3 months ago        1.43GB
  hyperledger/fabric-orderer                                                                                                      1.4.1               ec4ca236d3d4        3 months ago        173MB
  hyperledger/fabric-peer                                                                                                         1.4.1               a1e3874f338b        3 months ago        178MB
  hyperledger/fabric-couchdb                                                                                                      0.4.15              8de128a55539        3 months ago        1.5GB
  hyperledger/fabric-baseimage                                                                                                    0.4.15              c4c532c23a50        3 months ago        1.39GB
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Instead of using a SDK I want to directly access the local fabric through REST from Node-RED, can I use the <a href="https://hyperledger.github.io/composer/v0.19/integrating/deploying-the-rest-server" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Hyperledger Composer REST server</a> to do this? What would be the necessary steps?</p>