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Building a Docker image

Prerequisites

You need to ensure you have the following tools installed:

If you are working in the Windows Subsystem for Linux, follow this guide by Microsoft to set up Docker first.

Building a production image

This procedure works for building the MQ Continuous Delivery release, on x86_64, ppc64le and s390x architectures.

  1. Create a downloads directory in the root of this repository
  2. Download MQ from IBM Passport Advantage, and place the downloaded file (for example, IBM_MQ_9.1.0.0_UBUNTU_X86-64.tar.gz for MQ V9.1.0 for Ubuntu on x86_64 architecture) in the downloads directory
  3. Run make build-advancedserver

Warning: Note that MQ offers two different sets of packaging on Linux: one is called "MQ for Linux" and contains RPM files for installing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The other package is called "MQ for Ubuntu", and contains DEB files for installing on Ubuntu.

You can build a different version of MQ by setting the MQ_VERSION environment variable, for example:

MQ_VERSION=9.0.5.0 make build-advancedserver

If you have an MQ archive file with a different file name, you can specify a particular file (which must be in the downloads directory). You should also specify the MQ version, so that the resulting image is tagged correctly, for example:

MQ_ARCHIVE=mq-1.2.3.4.tar.gz MQ_VERSION=1.2.3.4 make build-advancedserver

Building a developer image

Run make build-devserver, which will download the latest version of MQ Advanced for Developers from IBM developerWorks. This is currently only available on the x86_64 architecture.

You can use the environment variable MQ_ARCHIVE_DEV to specify an alternative local file to install from (which must be in the downloads directory).

Building on a different base image

By default, the MQ images use Ubuntu as the base layer. You can build using a Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible base layer by setting the BASE_IMAGE environment variable. For example:

BASE_IMAGE=centos:7 make build-advancedserver

The make tool will try and locate the right archive file under the downloads directory, based on your platform architecture and your MQ_VERSION environment variable, for example IBM_MQ_9.1.0.0_LINUX_X86_64.tar.gz for MQ V9.1.0.0 on x86_64. You can also set the MQ_ARCHIVE environment variable to set the specific file name.

Note that if you are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you will need to create your own base image layer, with your subscription enabled, as described here. The MQ image build needs to install some additional packages, and a subscription is required to access the Red Hat repositories.

Installed components

This image includes the core MQ server, Java, language packs, and GSKit. This can be configured by setting the MQ_PACKAGES argument to make, or directly as a Docker build argument.