diff --git a/devenv/setupUbuntuOnPPC64le.sh b/devenv/setupUbuntuOnPPC64le.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..4745c5a0f69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devenv/setupUbuntuOnPPC64le.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Development on Power (ppc64le) systems is done outside of vagrant, on the
+# native OS. This script helps setup the dev env on ppc64le Ubuntu.
+#
+# See https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric/blob/master/docs/dev-setup/install.md#building-outside-of-vagrant-
+#
+# NOTE: This script assumes that
+#	- OS specific apt-sources / repositories are already set appropriately.
+#	- Host's GOPATH environment variable is set.
+#
+# To get started on a fresh Ubuntu install:
+#	mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger
+#	cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger
+#	git clone http://gerrit.hyperledger.org/r/fabric
+#	sudo ./fabric/devenv/setupUbuntuOnPPC64el.sh
+#	cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric
+#	make dist-clean all
+
+if [ xroot != x$(whoami) ]
+then
+   echo "You must run as root (Hint: Try prefix 'sudo' while executing the script)"
+   exit
+fi
+
+if [ ! -d "$GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric" ]
+then
+    echo "Ensure fabric code is under $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric"
+    exit
+fi
+
+#####################################
+# Install pre-requisite OS packages #
+#####################################
+apt-get update
+apt-get -y install software-properties-common curl git sudo wget
+
+#####################################
+# Install and setup Docker services #
+#####################################
+# Along with docker.io, aufs-tools also needs to be installed as 'auplink' which is part of aufs-tools package gets invoked during behave tests.
+apt-get -y install docker.io aufs-tools
+
+# Set DOCKER_OPTS and restart Docker daemon.
+sed  -i '/#DOCKER_OPTS=/a DOCKER_OPTS="-H tcp://0.0.0.0:2375 -H unix:///var/run/docker.sock"' /etc/default/docker
+systemctl restart docker
+
+####################################
+# Install Go and set env variable  #
+####################################
+# Golang binaries for ppc64le are publicly available from Unicamp and is recommended as it includes certain platform specific tuning/optimization.
+# Alternativley package part of Ubuntu disto repo can also be used.
+wget ftp://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/linuxpatch/toolchain/at/ubuntu/dists/trusty/at9.0/binary-ppc64el/advance-toolchain-at9.0-golang_9.0-3_ppc64el.deb
+dpkg -i advance-toolchain-at9.0-golang_9.0-3_ppc64el.deb
+rm -f advance-toolchain-at9.0-golang_9.0-3_ppc64el.deb
+
+# Create links under /usr/bin using update-alternatives
+update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/go go /usr/local/go/bin/go 9
+update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gofmt gofmt /usr/local/go/bin/gofmt 9
+
+# Set the GOROOT env variable
+export GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
+
+####################################
+# Build and install RocksDB        #
+####################################
+
+apt-get -y install libsnappy-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev "build-essential"
+
+cd /tmp
+git clone https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb.git
+cd rocksdb
+git checkout tags/v4.1
+echo There were some bugs in 4.1. This was fixed in dev stream and newer releases like 4.5.1.
+sed -ibak 's/ifneq ($(MACHINE),ppc64)/ifeq (,$(findstring ppc64,$(MACHINE)))/g' Makefile
+PORTABLE=1 make shared_lib
+INSTALL_PATH=/usr/local make install-shared
+ldconfig
+cd - ; rm -rf /tmp/rocksdb
+
+################################################
+# Install PIP tools, behave and docker-compose #
+################################################
+
+apt-get -y install python-pip
+pip install --upgrade pip
+pip install behave nose docker-compose
+
+pip install -I flask==0.10.1 python-dateutil==2.2 pytz==2014.3 pyyaml==3.10 couchdb==1.0 flask-cors==2.0.1 requests==2.4.3 grpcio==0.13.1
diff --git a/docs/dev-setup/build.md b/docs/dev-setup/build.md
index 6b1cea40903..642eaf79ec2 100644
--- a/docs/dev-setup/build.md
+++ b/docs/dev-setup/build.md
@@ -158,6 +158,21 @@ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric
 make peer unit-test behave
 ```
 
+### Building on Power Platform
+
+Development and build on Power (ppc64le) systems is done outside of vagrant as outlined [here](#building-outside-of-vagrant-). For ease of setting up the dev environment on Ubuntu, invoke [this script](https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric/tree/master/devenv/setupUbuntuOnPPC64le.sh) as root. This script has been validated on Ubuntu 16.04 and assumes certain things (like, development system has OS repositories in place, firewall setting etc) and in general can be improvised further.
+
+To get started on Power server installed with Ubuntu, first ensure you have properly setup your Host's [GOPATH environment variable](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GOPATH). Then, execute the following commands to build the fabric code:
+
+```
+mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger
+cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger
+git clone http://gerrit.hyperledger.org/r/fabric
+sudo ./fabric/devenv/setupUbuntuOnPPC64le.sh
+cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric
+make dist-clean all
+```
+
 ### Building natively on OSX
 First, install Docker, as described [here](https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/mac/).
 The database by default writes to /var/hyperledger. You can override this in the `core.yaml` configuration file, under `peer.fileSystemPath`.
diff --git a/images/base/Makefile b/images/base/Makefile
index 740274cd045..be148e69668 100644
--- a/images/base/Makefile
+++ b/images/base/Makefile
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ VAGRANTIMAGE=packer_virtualbox-iso_virtualbox.box
 
 DOCKER_BASE_x86_64=ubuntu:trusty
 DOCKER_BASE_s390x=s390x/ubuntu:xenial
+DOCKER_BASE_ppc64le=ppc64le/ubuntu:xenial
 
 DOCKER_BASE=$(DOCKER_BASE_$(ARCH))
 
diff --git a/images/base/scripts/common/setup.sh b/images/base/scripts/common/setup.sh
index 401585cfb45..6617ef8715e 100755
--- a/images/base/scripts/common/setup.sh
+++ b/images/base/scripts/common/setup.sh
@@ -16,21 +16,33 @@ apt-get dist-upgrade -qqy
 # install git
 apt-get install --yes git
 
+MACHINE=`uname -m`
+if [ x$MACHINE = xppc64le ]
+then
+   # install sudo
+   apt-get install --yes sudo
+fi
+
 # Set Go environment variables needed by other scripts
 export GOPATH="/opt/gopath"
 
 #install golang
 #apt-get install --yes golang
 mkdir -p $GOPATH
-MACHINE=`uname -m`
 if [ x$MACHINE = xs390x ]
 then
    apt-get install --yes golang
    export GOROOT="/usr/lib/go-1.6"
-elif [ x$MACHINE = xppc64 ]
+elif [ x$MACHINE = xppc64le ]
 then
-   echo "TODO: Add PPC support"
-   exit
+   wget ftp://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/linuxpatch/toolchain/at/ubuntu/dists/trusty/at9.0/binary-ppc64el/advance-toolchain-at9.0-golang_9.0-3_ppc64el.deb
+   dpkg -i advance-toolchain-at9.0-golang_9.0-3_ppc64el.deb
+   rm advance-toolchain-at9.0-golang_9.0-3_ppc64el.deb
+
+   update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/go go /usr/local/go/bin/go 9
+   update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gofmt gofmt /usr/local/go/bin/gofmt 9
+
+   export GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
 elif [ x$MACHINE = xx86_64 ]
 then
    export GOROOT="/opt/go"
@@ -45,6 +57,9 @@ then
    mv go $GOROOT
    chmod 775 $GOROOT
    rm go$GO_VER.linux-${ARCH}.tar.gz
+else
+  echo "TODO: Add $MACHINE support"
+  exit
 fi
 
 PATH=$GOROOT/bin:$GOPATH/bin:$PATH
@@ -59,6 +74,9 @@ EOF
 # Install NodeJS
 
 if [ x$MACHINE = xs390x ]
+then
+    apt-get install --yes nodejs
+elif [ x$MACHINE = xppc64le ]
 then
     apt-get install --yes nodejs
 else
@@ -120,9 +138,14 @@ cd rocksdb
 git checkout tags/v4.1
 if [ x$MACHINE = xs390x ]
 then
-    echo There were some bugs in 4.1 for x/p, dev stream has the fix, living dangereously, fixing in place
+    echo There were some bugs in 4.1 for z/p, dev stream has the fix, living dangereously, fixing in place
     sed -i -e "s/-march=native/-march=z196/" build_tools/build_detect_platform
     sed -i -e "s/-momit-leaf-frame-pointer/-DDUMBDUMMY/" Makefile
+elif [ x$MACHINE = xppc64le ]
+then
+    echo There were some bugs in 4.1 for z/p, dev stream has the fix, living dangereously, fixing in place.
+    echo Below changes are not required for newer releases of rocksdb.
+    sed -ibak 's/ifneq ($(MACHINE),ppc64)/ifeq (,$(findstring ppc64,$(MACHINE)))/g' Makefile
 fi
 
 PORTABLE=1 make shared_lib