Building a sample IBM MQ queue manager container image

Use this information to build a sample container image for running an IBM MQ queue manager in a container.

About this task

Firstly, you build a base image containing an Red Hat Universal Base Image file system and a clean installation of IBM MQ.

Secondly, you build another container image layer on top of the base, which adds some IBM MQ configuration to allow basic user ID and password security.

Finally, you run a container using this image as its file system, with the contents of /var/mqm provided by a container-specific volume on the host file system.

• Building a sample base IBM MQ queue manager image
  In order to use IBM MQ in your own container image, we need initially to build a base image with a clean IBM MQ installation. The following steps show you how to build a sample base image, using sample code hosted on GitHub.
• Building a sample configured IBM MQ queue manager image
  After you have built your generic base IBM MQ container image, we need to apply your own configuration to allow secure access. To do this, you create your own container image layer, using the generic image as a parent.

Parent topic: Building your own IBM MQ container