A question I am regularly asked is how do I make DataPower and MQ run on my laptop together, This guide gives you a step by step guide to get the basics up and running. This is a skunkworks environment only

This guides assumes you already have docker installed

  1. Download the MQ image docker pull ibmcom/mq

  2. Download DataPower docker pull ibmcom/datapower

REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
ibmcom/mq           latest              3545f67ca057        3 weeks ago         941MB
ibmcom/datapower    latest              47fea93fc319        2 months ago        1.48GB
  1. start an MQ instance 
    docker run \
  --env LICENSE=accept \
  --env MQ_QMGR_NAME=QM1 \
  --publish 1414:1414 \
  --publish 9443:9443 \
  --detach \
  ibmcom/mq

    Taken from https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-container/blob/master/docs/usage.md

3.b. start a datapower instance

docker run -it \
  -d \
  -v $PWD/config:/drouter/config \
  -v $PWD/local:/drouter/local \
  -e DATAPOWER_ACCEPT_LICENSE=true \
  -e DATAPOWER_INTERACTIVE=true \
  -e DATAPOWER_WORKER_THREADS=4 \
  -p 9090:9090 \
  ibmcom/datapower

Taken from https://hub.docker.com/r/ibmcom/datapower/

  1. Get the IP Address of hte MQ QMGR Container

docker inspect <MQ Conteiner ID>

Look for NetworkSettings.Networks.bridge.IPAddress

Make a note of this value

  1. Disable Security on MQ * NOT RECOMMEND OUTSIDE OF A SKUNKWORKS *

Attack to the MQ container

docker exec -ti <MQ Conteiner ID> bash

Press enter twice

Run runmqsc QM1 where QM1 is the name of the QMGR you set in the first step.

Paste in the following text

ALTER QMGR CHLAUTH(DISABLED) CONNAUTH('')  
ALTER CHANNEL(SYSTEM.DEF.SVRCONN) CHLTYPE(SVRCONN) MCAUSER('mqm')
REFRESH SECURITY
END

exit the mq container with exit

  1. Start the datapower admin console

docker attach -ti <container id>

e.g. docker attach -ti 314e3c45dcf9

6.b. login with admin / admin

6.c. Run this command to enable the admin interface co ; web-mgmt; admin-state enabled ; exit ;exit

  1. In a web brewswer go to https://127.0.0.1:9090 - note HTTPS not HTTP

7.b. login with admin / admin

  1. create a new application domain. In datapower the appliance can be logically split (and physically on physical appliance) by domain. It is recommend that nothing other then configuration is done in the default domain

8.b. Search for application domain in the search box on the top left, then click on either of the Application Domain entries in the response

8.c. Click add 8.d. Give it a name and press Apply

  1. Switch Domain - In the top right click on domain and select your new Domain 9.b. Click Save changes and switch domains

  2. Search for MQ Queue Manager, click on the result and click on add.

  3. Fill in the form Host - should be the IP you recorded earlier in 4 Queue Manager Name - QM1 or as you had set in 3

11.b. Press Apply

Congrats you have a DataPower and MQ working on yourlaptop together. This is only suitable for a skunkworks no more then that.