Support for building your own IBM MQ container images and charts

Information to consider if we are using containers on a Linux system.

The base image used by the container image must use a Linux operating system that is supported.
We must use the IBM MQ installers to install the product inside the container image.
For a list of supported packages, see IBM MQ rpm components for Linux systems.
The following packages are not supported:
- MQSeriesBCBridge
- MQSeriesRDQM
The queue manager data directory (/var/mqm by default) must be stored on a container volume that keeps persistent state.Important: We cannot use the union file system.
We must either mount a host directory as a data volume, or use a data volume container. For more information, see Use volumes.
We must be able to run IBM MQ control commands, such as endmqm, within the container.
We must be able to get files and directories from within the container for diagnostic purposes.
We can use namespacing to share the namespaces of the container for the queue manager with other containers, in order to locally bind applications to a queue manager running in separate containers. For more information, see Running local binding applications in separate containers.

Parent topic: Plan for IBM MQ in containers