Designed for organizations looking to streamline and accelerate their journey into the API economy, IBM API Connect is a comprehensive management solution that addresses all four aspects of the API lifecycle: create, run, manage and secure. This makes API Connect far more cost-effective than limited point solutions that focus on just a few lifecycle phases and can end up collectively costing more as organizations piece components together.

By installing IBM® API Connect Docker images, you can run a complete IBM API Connect on-premises environment on your local machine.

This package requires a minimum of 8GB RAM and 2 CPUs.

You must install the following software on a supported operating system:

• docker 1.12.0 or later.
• docker-compose 1.8.1 or later.
• IBM API Connect Toolkit

To use the package, you must accept the license terms. If you do not assert that you have accepted the license, the IBM API Connect services will not start successfully.

You can view all the license files directly in the package: LICENSE.txt, non_ibm_license.txt and notices.txt, or with the command

docker run -it --rm --env SHOW_LICENSE=1 ibmcom/apiconnect:manager-v5.0.6.0

You can assert license acceptance by specifying the environment variable ACCEPT_LICENSE=true in .env file.

Before run the package, you need to edit .env file to access license and set SMTP configuration.

ACCEPT_LICENSE=true                         (required)
SMTP_HOST=smtp_server_hostname_or_address   (required)
SMTP_PORT=smtp_port_value                   (required)
SMTP_SENDER=sender_email_address            (required)
SMTP_USERNAME=smtp_username                 (optional)
SMTP_PASSWORD=smtp_password                 (optional, unless SMTP_USERNAME is set)

There are 2 options to run IBM API Connect docker images. You can either use DataPower Gateway or Micro Gateway as the gateway service. Please refer to the following link for detailed steps.

• Using DataPower Gateway
• Using Micro Gateway

• IBM API Connect
• IBM DataPower Gateway
• Micro Gateway
• LoopBack