Hi, Im completely new to IBM cloud. I want to create a hyperledger fabric based blockchain network using IBM cloud, however I cannot find the appropriate option in the IBM cloud web UI to do so. All the tutorials Ive seen talk contain steps that I cannot see in the IBM cloud web UI. Can anyone advise please?

eah, I get where you're coming from. IBM used to offer a service called IBM Blockchain Platform on their cloud, which made it super easy to deploy a Hyperledger Fabric network through a UI. But as of now (mid-2025), that specific service has been deprecated and is no longer directly available through the IBM Cloud dashboard.

That said, you still have a couple of options:

1. Use Hyperledger Fabric manually (on VMs or Kubernetes)

You can spin up a Kubernetes cluster (like IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service or even a basic VM on IBM Cloud), and then deploy Hyperledger Fabric manually using the official Fabric samples and documentation.

This gives you full control, but you'll need to be comfortable with command-line tools like cryptogen, configtxgen, and Docker Compose or Helm charts.

2. Run the IBM Blockchain Platform locally (for dev/testing)

IBM still maintains the IBM Blockchain Platform extension for VS Code, which lets you spin up a Fabric network locally for development. It's a great way to learn the architecture and get some hands-on experience before trying to deploy it on the cloud.

You can find it here:
 https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=IBMBlockchain.ibm-blockchain-platform