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Workspace WebSphere Liberty
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Created on May 5, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Install diagnostic features by default when using features.sh with the Liberty kernel base image

If the Liberty kernel base image is used to build a container (e.g. icr.io/appcafe/websphere-liberty:kernel-java17-openj9-ubi) and features.sh is used to install the necessary features from the server XML file(s), then, usually, potentially required diagnostic features won't be installed such as localConnector-1.0, requestTiming-1.0, monitor-1.0, osgiConsole-1.0, etc. This is particularly painful with containers and production issues because rebuilding and redeploying a container image is usually a complex and lengthy process.

This enhancement request is for features.sh to automatically install certain features by default even if they are not specified in the server XML file(s). The ones that come to mind are localConnector-1.0, requestTiming-1.0, monitor-1.0, and osgiConsole-1.0, though others can be considered (e.g. restConnector, mpHealth, mpMetrics, etc.). This behavior can be disabled with a variable before features.sh; for example:

# Default setting for installing diagnostic features. Set it to false to only install the features specified in the server XML file(s)
ARG INSTALL_DIAGNOSTICS=true

RUN features.sh

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