Bundling Node.js chaincode for offline install about fabric-chaincode-node HOT 2 OPEN

@kehm there is some help for this type of scenario in the Node.js Contracts Building with limited internet access guide. Another option which is not mentioned there (yet) is to use Chaincode as an external service where you are responsible for the lifecycle of the chaincode. There is now a provided CCaaS builder to make this option simpler.

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Thanks @jt-nti , resources on Hyperledger Fabric "best practices" are very appreciated. However, I don't think the proposed solutions will work for peers issued through cloud providers as one will typically not be able to manage the peer containers directly, i.e. it will not be possible to add local repositories and we do not control the chaincode container deployment.

I know this problem is more of a cloud provider issue, but from our point of view this process would be a lot simpler if we would be able to "bootstrap" the chaincode inside Node.js (e.g. in index.js) without requiring the "fabric-chaincode-node start" script to be called. I assume this is not possible in the current version of the chaincode library? I don't know the effort that would be required to make this possible in future releases, but I would suggest bringing this up for consideration.

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