MQSeries.net :: View topic - MQ Container in Azure with persistent storage

nmurn5 · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2022 9:20 am Post subject:

Hi all,

I'm doing a POC / project for my own knowledge to stand up a single qmgr in a container in Azure with persistent storage. My question real quick has anyone done this successfully? Reason I ask is I'm able to do this locally on a linux VM...actually have a bunch of qmgrs running in containers but when I move to Azure things get complicated.

I'm able to stand up an MQ container(with no storage) in Azure container instances no problem. The problem seems to be the type of persistent storage. I think I've tried every kind of storage (NFSv4, v3, SMB, etc). Some work, and by work I mean they attach the storage and I see it mounted when i /bin/bash in and then boom the container terminates and goes into a reboot cycle.

I found a bunch of pages saying that MQ Containers can only do NFSv4 in Azure for persistent storage, but then I found another page that says container instances don't support NFSv4 as of 2021 lol.

I can't really find a consistent "this is the proper way to do this" outside of the ibmmq/mq github page which is how I got started down this whole rabbit hole but that page is basically for local / vms.

So back to my question, has anyone stood up an MQ Container in Azure w/ persistent storage and if so, I guess the main question I would have is what type of storage did you use? If I can get that ironed out I think I can get through the rest.

I can post up dockerfiles, the commands I'm running from az CLI, etc if that helps at all.

Thanks in advance!