Run IBM® MQ in a container.
You can build an image containing either IBM MQ Advanced, or IBM MQ Advanced for Developers. The developer image includes a default developer configuration, to make it easier to get started. There is also an incubating folder for additional images for other MQ components, which you might find useful.
After extracting the code from this repository, you can follow the build documentation to build an image.
See the usage documentation for details on how to run a container.
Note that in order to use the image, it is necessary to accept the terms of the IBM MQ license.
- LICENSE - Set this to
acceptto agree to the MQ Advanced for Developers license. If you wish to see the license you can set this toview. - LANG - Set this to the language you would like the license to be printed in.
- MQ_QMGR_NAME - Set this to the name you want your Queue Manager to be created with.
- LOG_FORMAT - Set this to change the format of the logs which are printed on the container's stdout. Set to "json" to use JSON format (JSON object per line); set to "basic" to use a simple human-readable format. Defaults to "basic".
- MQ_ENABLE_METRICS - Set this to
trueto generate Prometheus metrics for your Queue Manager.
See the default developer configuration docs for the extra environment variables supported by the MQ Advanced for Developers image.
If you want to use IBM MQ in Kubernetes, you can find an example Helm chart here: IBM charts. This can be used to run the container on a cluster, such as IBM Cloud Private or the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service.
For issues relating specifically to the container image or Helm chart, please use the GitHub issue tracker. If you do submit a Pull Request related to this Docker image, please indicate in the Pull Request that you accept and agree to be bound by the terms of the IBM Contributor License Agreement.
The Dockerfiles and associated code and scripts are licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Licenses for the products installed within the images are as follows:
- IBM MQ Advanced for Developers (International License Agreement for Non-Warranted Programs). This license may be viewed from an image using the
LICENSE=viewenvironment variable as described above or by following the link above. - IBM MQ Advanced (International Program License Agreement). This license may be viewed from an image using the
LICENSE=viewenvironment variable as described above or by following the link above. - License information for Ubuntu packages may be found in
/usr/share/doc/${package}/copyright
Note: The IBM MQ Advanced for Developers license does not permit further distribution and the terms restrict usage to a developer machine.
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