Overview of Creating Images to Use in the Deployment Process

The top-level approach to creating deployment images to work with COBOL applications is as follows:

1. Create a base image containing Enterprise Server.

   As described in Create Different Images for Different Deployment Tasks, you might want to consider creating a small number of base images rather than just one.

2. Ensure that you have available the executable files that are require to run the application.
3. Create an application-specific image that uses one of the images created in step 1 as a base, but also contains the executable files for your COBOL applications that you want to run.

   Using this approach, the Dockerfile for the image must contain commands to copy the executable files that are required to run the application from the local machine to the image. Once you have created your application-specific image you can then run it in a container.