Pre-requisites

Prior to creating any Fargate ECS resources, there are several prerequisites required.   Depending on your setup on AWS these steps may differ, but these have been verified in a new AWS account.

• Creating EFS storage for IBM MQ
• Creation of EFS mount points
• Creation of EFS access point
• Creation of a Security Group to allow communication into the MQ deployment

Creating EFS storage for IBM MQ

 there are various approaches to deploying IBM MQ on Fargate. These instructions focus on the IBM MQ deployments with EFS scenario. This was deliberately chosen as it will be a common scenario and represents the more comprehensive setup. The storage layer will be EFS and this needs to be created. Like all the instructions this will be completed using the standard AWS command line to minimize the likelihood of changes (which are more likely to occur in the AWS Web UI).

aws efs create-file-system \
      --performance-mode generalPurpose \
      --throughput-mode bursting \
      --encrypted \
      --tags Key=Name,Value=ibm-mq-fargate-storage 

Unfortunately at the moment App Connect does not support Fargate. If this is something you are looking to use please raise it as an Idea in https://integration-development.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/?project=APPC so that we can prioritise it accordingly.

aws efs create-file-system \      --performance-mode generalPurpose \      --throughput-mode bursting \      --encrypted \      --tags Key=Name,Value=ibm-mq-fargate-storage