Getting ready

From the Hyperledger Fabric website (https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/release-1.3/prereqs.html), the prerequisites for this recipe are as follows:

• Operating systems: Ubuntu Linux 14.04 / 16.04 LTS (both 64-bit), or macOS 10.12
• cURL tool: The latest version
• Docker engine: Version 17.06.2-ce or greater
• Docker-compose: Version 1.14 or greater
• Go: Version 1.10.x
• Node: Version 8.9 or higher (note: version 9 is not supported)
• npm: Version 5.x
• Python: 2.7.x

We chose Amazon Ubuntu Server 16.04. If you don't have experience with installing Ubuntu in EC2, please refer to the AWS document: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/tutorials/launch-a-virtual-machine/.

You can also chose to install Ubuntu in your local machine virtual box. A tutorial for this can be found at http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/virtualbox or https://askubuntu.com/questions/142549/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-virtualbox.