DIY model

Prerequistes for installing the containerized developer toolkit

Before you set up the developer toolkit, ensure that you meet all of the software, hardware, and operating system prerequisites.

Complete the following prerequisites:
  1. Access to a Linux machine that supports latest Docker and Docker Compose.
  2. Install Docker. After the installation is complete, start Docker and verify that Docker is installed correctly. For more information, see Install Docker CE for CentOS. For more information about Docker, see Get started with Docker.

    If you are setting up the developer toolkit environment on a Linux-based environment as a non-root user, refer Manage Docker as a non-root user to add the user to the docker group.

  3. Install Docker Compose. Refer Install Docker Compose. For more information about Docker Compose, refer Overview of Docker Compose.
  4. It is recommended that you either stop or disable any native Db2, Websphere Application Server, Liberty or MQ application services running locally, as it may unnecessarily consume system resources and the port numbers may conflict with the docker compose environment.