Scripts for customizing Docker images for TIBCO BusinessWorks™ Container Edition

The TIBCO BusinessWorks™ Container Edition (BWCE) Docker image is a highly extensible Docker base image for running TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition applications. This image can be customized for supported third-party drivers, OSGi™ bundles, integration with application configuration management systems, application certificate management etc.

TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition allows customers to build microservices with an API-first approach and deploy them to cloud-native platforms such as Cloud Foundry™ and Kubernetes. By elegantly right-sizing TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™, it brings visual application development and integration capabilities to any enterprise platform as a service.

To know more about TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition, visit Documentation

These Docker scripts are subject to the license shared as part of the repository. Review the license before using or downloading these scripts.

Version

• For TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition 2.3.2 and prior versions, use the bwce-docker script from branch 2.3.2.
• For TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition 2.6.3 and prior versions up to 2.3.3, use the bwce-docker script from branch 2.6.3.
• For TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition 2.7.0 and later versions, use the bwce-docker script from branch master.

Prerequisite

• Access to TIBCO® eDelivery
• Docker

Download TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition

Download the appropriate TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition 2.3.2 artifacts from TIBCO® eDelivery. It contains TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition runtime (bwce-runtime-<version>.zip).

Create TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition Base Docker Image

1. Clone this repository onto your local machine.
2. Locate the bwce-runtime-<version>.zip (e.g. bwce-runtime-2.3.2.zip) file from the downloaded artifacts and run createDockerImage.sh. This will create the TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition base Docker image.

Extend TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition Base Docker Image

You can customize the base Docker image for supported third-party drivers e.g. Oracle JDBC drivers, OSGi™ bundles or to add runtime of supported Plug-ins in TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition runtime. It can also be customized for application certificate management as well as to integrate with application configuration management services.

• Provision supported JDBC drivers:
  • Run bwinstall[.exe] help from <BWCE_HOME>/bin and follow instructions to add the driver to your TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition installation.
  • Copy the appropriate driver OSGi bundle from <BWCE_HOME>/config/drivers/shells/<driverspecific runtime>/runtime/plugins/ to the <Your-local-Docker-repo>/resources/addons/jars folder.
• Provision OSGi bundle jar(s): Copy OSGi bundle jar(s) into <Your-local-docker-repo>/resources/addons/jars
• Application Configuration Management: TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition supports Consul configuration mechanism out of the box. Refer Documentation for further details.
• Certificate Management: There are use cases where you need to use certificates into your application to connect to different systems. For example, a certificate to connect to TIBCO Enterprise Message Service™. Bundling certificates with your application is not a good idea as you would need to rebuild your application when the certificates expire. To avoid that, you can copy your certificates into the <Your-local-Docker-repo>/resources/addons/certs folder. Once the certificates expire, you can simply copy the new certificates into the base Docker image without rebuilding your application. Just build your application with the base Docker image. To access the certificates from your application, use the environment variable [BW_KEYSTORE_PATH]. For example, #BW_KEYSTORE_PATH#/mycert.jks.
• Provision TIBCO BusinessWorks™ Container Edition Plug-in Runtime:
  • TIBCO Certified Plug-Ins: The TIBCO BusinessWorks™ Container Edition has certified a few plug-ins. Contact TIBCO Support for the list of all supported plug-ins. To add a plug-in runtime into your base Docker image:
    • Download the appropriate plug-in packaging for example, TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks(TM) Plug-in for WebSphere MQ from https://edelivery.tibco.com
    • Locate the plug-in runtime zip file e.g. <ProductID>_ePaas.zip or TIB_<ProductID>_<ProductionVersion>_<BuildNumber>_bwce-runtime.zip file from the downloaded artifacts and copy into <Your-local-buildpack-repo>/resources/addons/plugins
• Plug-ins created using TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Plug-in Development Kit, the plug-in runtime must be added to the base Docker image. To add the plug-in runtime into your base docker image:
  • Install Plug-In if not already installed.
  • Navigate to the <TIBCO-HOME>/bwce/palettes/<plugin-name>/<plugin-version> directory and zip the lib and runtime folders into <plugin-name>.zip file. Copy <plugin-name>.zip to <Your-local-Docker-repo>/resources/addons/plugins folder.
• Copy any OSGi bundles required by the plug-in for example, driver bundle into <Your-local-Docker-repo>/resources/addons/jars

Run createDockerImage.sh to create the TIBCO BusinessWorks™ Container Edition base Docker image.

Test TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition Base Docker Image

• Navigate to the examples/HTTP directory and update the base Docker image in Dockerfile to your TIBCO BusinessWorks™ Container Edition base Docker image.
• From the examples/HTTP directory, build the TIBCO BusinessWorks™ Container Edition application: docker build -t bwce-http-app .
• Run the TIBCO BusinessWorks™ Container Edition application: docker run -P -e MESSAGE='Welcome to BWCE 2.0 !!!' bwce-http-app
• Find the port number mapped to 8080 using docker ps and send a request to http://<DOCKER-HOST-IP>:<HOST-PORT>. It should return 'Welcome to BWCE 2.0 !!!' message. In case of failure, inspect the logs.

License

These buildpack scripts are released under a 3-clause BSD-type license.

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