IBM WebSphere Application Server Performance Cookbook

WebSphere Application Server traditional in Containers

Recipe

  1. Review the Java in Containers recipes
  2. Execute /work/configure.sh as the last step in your Containerfile
  3. Review the WAS traditional recipes
  4. Review the Java recipe
  5. Review the Operating System Recipes

Container Images

  • IBM Container Registry:
    • WebSphere Application Server traditional: FROM icr.io/appcafe/websphere-traditional
    • See all tags with: 
      curl -s https://icr.io/v2/appcafe/websphere-traditional/tags/list | jq .tags
  • DockerHub
    • WebSphere Application Server traditional: FROM docker.io/ibmcom/websphere-traditional
    • See all WebSphere Application Server traditional tags with: 
      curl -L -s "https://registry.hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/ibmcom/websphere-traditional/tags?page=1&page_size=100" | jq '.results[].name'

Resources

Migrating from tWAS

  1. Download the Migration Toolkit for Application Binaries
  2. Install: java -jar binaryAppScannerInstaller.jar
  3. Run java -jar binaryAppScanner.jar $WAS/config/cells/$CELL/applications/$APP.ear --targetAppServer=$SERVER --generateConfig and use the resulting wsadmin script in place of the install_app.py script

Log Analysis Dashboards

WAS traditional provides a Kibana dashboard example.

Docker

Examples

WAS traditional on Docker

Create a file in the current directory named PASSWORD with an administrative password as its contents. For example:

wsadmin

Then run:

docker run -p 9043:9043 -p 9443:9443 -v $(pwd)/PASSWORD:/tmp/PASSWORD -e ENABLE_BASIC_LOGGING=true ibmcom/websphere-traditional:latest

After you see "open for e-business", access the administrative console with the user name wsadmin and the password from the PASSWORD file at https://localhost:9043/ibm/console/login.do?action=secure

Access the WebContainer port at 9443: https://localhost:9443/snoop