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  • 1.  Automating MQ 9.1 installation in Linux

    Posted 03/25/22 10:25 AM
    Hello,
    We are planning to install MQ in a GCE(Google compute engine - VM) in a linux OS.
    We usually use terraform in our infrastructure creation in Google Cloud Platform. We are wondering if you have some suggestion for us on how to install IBM MQ in a standard way with
    a)terraform or
    b)terraform and ansible combined
    c) Shell scripts which install IBM MQ from scratch automatically, without user interaction, in a VM    ?

    In short, what is the best practice of automating the installing of IBM MQ. 

    It will be well appreciated if you could share some sample code.

    Thanks in advance.



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    Sudip Das
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  • 2.  RE: Automating MQ 9.1 installation in Linux

    Posted 04/05/22 01:16 PM
    There are two aspects
    getting the MQ Software onto the machine.
    getting queue mangers, queues, channels, etc onto the machine.
    IBM itself provides the one liner to install the software 
    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.2?topic=imlur-installing-first-mq-installation-linux-using-rpm-command
    Best Practice: Think before you install anything.
    What you expect to get out of an automated default installation?
    6 queue managers distributed among two installations on one virtual unix machine?
    What shall it do, when the automation is finished?
    Some people are working with Vagrant, Docker or Kubernetes Yaml to get stuff deployed.
    Ansible works well with Vagrant, Docker and Kubernets.

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    Matthias Jungbauer
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