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Status Submitted
Workspace App Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 11, 2026

Create Slimmed Down Image For Building/Packaging BAR Files

It would be nice if there was an small/minimal official image for ACE that focused on building/packaging BAR files (i.e. ibmint package). We have a pipeline to deploy ACE applications that makes extensive use of the REST APIs, but we had to build our own container image just for the ibmint package command.

If it's not possible to provide a slimmed-down image that focuses on packaging, could IBM offer guidance about what can be excluded from the tar.gz installation file? We have a requirement to remove unneeded software from all images, as well as rebuilding images frequently.


Here's what we're excluding from the build image we're using today:
curl "https://companyname.jfrog.io/artifactory/generic-local/hp_ibmace/tarballs/ACE-13.0.8.2_Linux.tar.gz" \
| tar -xz \
--exclude 'ace-13.0.*/server/nodejs*' \
--exclude 'ace-13.0.*/server/lib/node_modules' \
--exclude 'ace-13.0.*/server/wsrrcomponent' \
--exclude 'ace-13.0.*/server/sample' \
--exclude 'ace-13.0.*/server/ODBC' \
--exclude 'ace-13.0.*/server/transformationAdvisor' \
--exclude 'ace-13.0.*/server/bash_autocompletion' \
--exclude 'ace-13.0.*/server/messages/{De,Es,Fr,It,Ja,Ko,Pl,Pt,Ru,Tr,Zh}*' \
--exclude 'ace-13.0.*/server/messages/*_{de,es,fr,it,ja,ko,pl,pt,ru,tr,zh}.properties' \
--exclude 'ace-13.0.*/readmes' \
--exclude 'ace-13.0.*/ie02' \
--exclude 'ace-13.0.*/tools' \
--exclude 'ace-13.0.*/extensions' \
--strip-components 1 \
--directory /opt/ibm/ace-13
Idea priority Low