This is a bash shell script for bootstrapping the Hyperledger Fabric development environment on an AWS Ubuntu AMI instance. It has been tested with Ubuntu v14.04 (AMI ID ami-2d39803a). While I wrote this to enable AWS deployments, this script should be usable in any Ubuntu based environment. See the first comment below for the detailed background.

setup-aws.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Install "git"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install git

# Clone the Hyperledger Fabric base image repository.  It would be preferable
# to use the "/tmp" directory as the destination, since this repository is no
# longer needed once the base image has been built.  However, this is
# problematic because one of the scripts that builds the base image removes
# everything from the "/tmp" directory, as opposed to just the artifacts that
# it created.
git clone http://gerrit.hyperledger.org/r/fabric-baseimage

# Execute the first part of the setup that builds the base image.  If in the
# past you have only setup a Fabric development environment using an existing
# Vagrant box (e.g. "hyperledger\fabric-baseimage"), then you have not seen
# this part run before since its final state is what is captured in the box.
# Normally, this part is executed via Packer to build a Vagrant box.
cd fabric-baseimage
BASEIMAGE_RELEASE=`cat ./release` sudo bash -c ./scripts/common/setup.sh
sudo bash -c ./scripts/devenv/setup.sh

# Setup the directory structure that will contain the Fabric main repository.
# When using Vagrant, this repository resides on the host and is made
# available to the guest via a VirtualBox shared folder.
sudo bash -c 'umask 00002 && mkdir -p /opt/gopath/src/github.com/hyperledger'
sudo chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /opt/gopath

# Clone the Fabric repository
cd /opt/gopath/src/github.com/hyperledger
git clone http://gerrit.hyperledger.org/r/fabric

# Create a symbolic link to the repository.  Again, when using Vagrant, the
# repository on the host is exposed to the guest via another VirtualBox shared
# folder.
sudo ln -s /opt/gopath/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric /hyperledger

# Execute the second part of the setup.  This part produces the majority of
# the console output when you use the 'vagrant up' command to start the
# Vagrant based development environment for the first time.  In this case, you
# won't see the output from the preliminary steps that Vagrant takes to
# provision a VirtualBox instance.
#
# Before executing the script, it is necessary to apply a few changes to it.  
# Specifically, references to the "vagrant" user and group names must be
# replaced with the equivalent "ubuntu" user and group names that are baked
# into the standard AWS Ubuntu AMI.
cd /hyperledger
sed -i 's#^usermod -a -G docker vagrant#usermod -a -G docker ubuntu#' ./devenv/setup.sh
sed -i 's#^sudo chown -R vagrant:vagrant#sudo chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu#' ./devenv/setup.sh
sed -i 's#>> /home/vagrant/.bashrc#>> /home/ubuntu/.bashrc#' ./devenv/setup.sh
sudo -H bash -c ./devenv/setup.sh

UPDATE 2016, SEP 23: Revision 6 includes the necessary changes to again make this script work following the base image creation artifacts being split off from the fabric repository into to the new fabric-baseimage repository. The following is the commit record from the fabric repository showing when this change was merged into the master branch:

commit 3cfaeb582e962e1c9a7c147ac0f87bde8c6e0933
Merge: 3e74925 ac8ab84
Author: Jonathan Levi <jonathan@levi.name>
Date:   Thu Sep 22 20:46:44 2016 +0000

    Merge "Switch to new baseimage-pipeline"