The Hyperledger Project, a collaborative cross-industry effort created to advance blockchain technology, announced a new project ‘Cello’, which is a toolkit for deploying a Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) that minimizes the effort for creating, managing, and terminating blockchains.

Cello aims to deploy on-demand ‘as-a-service’ model to the blockchain ecosystem in a move to provide a multi-tenant chain service in an effective and automatic way, on top of infrastructures including bare-metal, virtual machine, and more. Cello will join various other efforts of Hyperledger like  Fabric, Sawtooth Lake, Blockchain Explorer, and Iroha.

Presently, the Cello project is developed and maintained by Baohua Yang and Haitao Yue from IBM Research. The project enables developers to create and manage multiple blockchains in a pool through a dashboard and simultaneously it enables users to obtain blockchain quickly with a single request. Also, Cello will aid in building the community by offering the blockchain service functionality and attracting more contributors to Hyperledger.

“Cello will definitely welcome potential collaborations with other important projects, to achieve another open-source success,” Baohua Yang said.

Cello leverages the Docker APIs in order to manage the blockchain clusters in remote hosts and can thus be deployed easily to Cloud environments that provide virtual machines on demand. Cello serves as a great compliment to other Hyperledger projects like it can boot a blockchain with blockchain-explorer as the dashboard, with SDK and chain tool as the interface to operate chaincode.

The Cello project also has sponsors including Soramitsu, Huawei and Intel.