HyperLedger Fabric is a blockchain framework that provides identity management, smart contracts (chaincode), privacy, and high transaction throughput. It uses a modular architecture consisting of peers, chaincode, ordering service, and certificate authority. Peers host the ledger and smart contracts, endorse and validate transactions. The ordering service orders transactions into blocks. Chaincode defines assets and transaction logic on the ledger. Channels provide isolation between different applications or groups of organizations.