Deploying the Issuer

What We Are Doing:

• Using the One-Click Deployment portal to create an Issuer service.

• The Issuer will be able to issue Verifiable Credentials once we provide a schema.

Why: The Issuer is a trusted authority that creates credentials. By deploying it through the portal, we avoid manual setup and get a ready-to-use endpoint.

Steps:

1. Log into the One-Click Deployment platform.

2. Create a new Issuer (see Create Issuer).

3. Once active, note down necessary details. This variables can be found after clicking on the Issuer Details in the One-Click Deployment portal.

   • ISSUER_URL (e.g., https://your-issuer.evdi.app) (the URL where the Issuer is hosted)

   • ISSUER_SECRET (e.g., your-issuer-secret) (the secret used to authenticate requests to the Issuer)

4. Store these in your .env file so your application can access them securely:

   ISSUER_URL=https://your-issuer.evdi.app
   ISSUER_SECRET=your-issuer-secret

After storing this details in .env they will be easily accessible in your code using process.env.ISSUER_URL and process.env.ISSUER_SECRET and you can use them in your CMD or terminal to interact with the Issuer service (to use it you muse run source .env in your terminal).

Next, we will upload a credential schema to let the Issuer know what kind of credentials we want to issue.