this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The external chaincode launcher feature empowers operators to build and launch
chaincode with the technology of their choice. Use of external builders and launchers
is not required as the default behavior builds and runs chaincode in the same manner
as prior releases using the Docker API.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><strong>Eliminate Docker daemon dependency</strong> Prior releases of Fabric required
peers to have access to a Docker daemon in order to build and launch
chainc