One of my colleagues kindly drew my attention to this nice little set of tutorials, which take one through using the IBM DataPower Gateway (IDG) on Docker: -
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REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
ibmcom/datapower latest e8cc082c4c80 10 hours ago 719.2 MB
jenkins 2.7.2 a94b49bb279b 39 hours ago 714.5 MB
websphere-liberty latest f042ad3a168c 3 weeks ago 444.4 MB
websphere-liberty webProfile7 efa42bcc5850 3 weeks ago 396 MB
ibmcom/db2express-c latest 7aa154d9b73c 15 months ago 1.705 GB
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which is excellent, as I'm definitely on the on-ramp for Docker and IBM Containers and, equally importantly, I wanted to learn more about DataPower.
Having downloaded the image: -
docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
ibmcom/datapower latest e8cc082c4c80 10 hours ago 719.2 MB
jenkins 2.7.2 a94b49bb279b 39 hours ago 714.5 MB
websphere-liberty latest f042ad3a168c 3 weeks ago 444.4 MB
websphere-liberty webProfile7 efa42bcc5850 3 weeks ago 396 MB
ibmcom/db2express-c latest 7aa154d9b73c 15 months ago 1.705 GB
and having run the container, things start up, albeit with a few errors: -
20160902T120115.012Z [0x8040006b][system][notice] logging target(default-log): Logging started.
20160902T120115.058Z [0x804000fc][system][error] : Insufficient memory allocation. Required is 4000000 KB, but configured is 2048396 KB.
20160902T120115.058Z [0x804000fe][system][notice] : Container instance UUID: 693e7870e85a, Cores: 4, vCPUs: 4, CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4870HQ CPU @ 2.50GHz, Memory: 2000M, Platform: docker, OS: dpos, Edition: evaluation, Up time: 0 minutes
20160902T120115.066Z [0x8040001c][system][notice] : DataPower IDG is on-line.
20160902T120115.066Z [0x8100006f][system][notice] : Executing default startup configuration.
20160902T120228.633Z [0x8100006d][system][notice] : Executing system configuration.
20160902T120228.634Z [0x8100006b][mgmt][notice] domain(default): tid(7375): Domain operational state is up.
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Unauthorized access prohibited.
login: 20160902T120232.481Z [0x806000dd][system][notice] cert-monitor(Certificate Monitor): tid(399): Enabling Certificate Monitor to scan once every 1 days for soon to expire certificates
20160902T120234.509Z [0x8100006e][system][notice] : Executing startup configuration.
20160902T120236.642Z [0x8040009f][system][notice] throttle(Throttler): tid(1327): Disabling throttle.
20160902T120236.661Z [0x00350015][mgmt][notice] b2b-persistence(B2BPersistence): tid(111): Operational state down
20160902T120237.024Z [0x0034000d][mgmt][warn] ssh(SSH Service): tid(111): Object is disabled
20160902T120246.438Z [0x00350015][mgmt][notice] smtp-server-connection(default): tid(6847): Operational state down
20160902T120246.438Z [0x00350014][mgmt][notice] smtp-server-connection(default): tid(6847): Operational state up
20160902T120247.454Z [0x80e00817][quota-enforcement][error] quota-enforcement-server(QuotaEnforcementServer): tid(639): The operational state of quota enforcement server transitioned to down.
20160902T120247.455Z [0x00350015][mgmt][notice] quota-enforcement-server(QuotaEnforcementServer): tid(639): Operational state down
20160902T120247.457Z [0x00350014][mgmt][notice] quota-enforcement-server(QuotaEnforcementServer): tid(639): Operational state up
20160902T120247.475Z [0x81000001][cli][error] : *** Unknown command or macro
20160902T120247.475Z [0x81000223][cli][error] : (startup-config:632): save-config overwrite
20160902T120247.476Z [0x00350014][mgmt][notice] web-mgmt(WebGUI-Settings): tid(303): Operational state up
20160902T120247.593Z [0x8100000c][mgmt][notice] : tid(111): Saved current configuration to 'config:///auto-user.cfg'
20160902T120247.597Z [0x8100003b][mgmt][notice] domain(default): Domain configured successfully.
login: admin
Password: *****
Welcome to IBM DataPower Gateway console configuration.
Copyright IBM Corporation 1999-2016
Version: IDG.7.5.2.0beta4 build 280356beta4 on Sep 1, 2016 5:37:25 PM
Serial number: 0000001
Notice: startup config contains errors.
idg# 20160902T120904.790Z [0x8120002f][ssl][error] ssl-server(webgui-ssl): tid(64)[172.17.0.1]: SSL library error: error:140940E5:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:ssl handshake failure
and I can get to a login screen using: -
Now to learn what to do with DP :-)