Building your own IBM MQ container

Develop a self-built container, formerly referred to as the Docker container image. This is the most flexible container solution, but it requires you to have strong skills in configuring containers, and to own the resultant container.

Before you begin

Before you develop your own container, consider whether you can instead use one of the pre-packaged containers provided by IBM®. See IBM MQ in containers

About this task

When you package IBM MQ as a container image, changes to your application can be deployed to test and staging systems quickly and easily. This can be a major benefit to continuous delivery in your enterprise.