How to change locale in Liberty Container image
rinaxsumomo
Posted on April 27, 2023
So you got WebSphere Liberty Container image based on Ubuntu from here.
And you'd like to change locale because you'd like to have logs in another language, such as Japanese, etc.
My procedure in this post is based on this but I think you need some additional steps, so here is how.
By the way my environment is MacOS Monterey 23.6.5, Apple M1Pro,using podman instead of docker. That's why I pulled amd64, of course you can get other architecture images depending on your environment.
1.Make Containerfile to install JP locale package and set environment variables with root.
FROM docker.io/amd64/websphere-liberty:23.0.0.3-full-java17-openj9
USER 0
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y language-pack-ja \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
ENV LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 \
LANGUAGE=ja_JP:ja \
LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 \
TZ="Asia/Tokyo"
USER 1001
2.Build image.
$ podman build -t amd64-websphere-liberty:23.0.0.3-full-java17-openj9-jp .
STEP 1/5: FROM docker.io/amd64/websphere-liberty:23.0.0.3-full-java17-openj9
STEP 2/5: USER 0
--> Using cache 5d96bfdaf8d57c662ee86745b993e848d14849982ab17d543c9a872dbd469da2
--> 5d96bfdaf8d
STEP 3/5: RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y language-pack-ja && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
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Reading package lists...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following additional packages will be installed:
language-pack-ja-base
The following NEW packages will be installed:
language-pack-ja language-pack-ja-base
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Selecting previously unselected package language-pack-ja-base.
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Generating locales (this might take a while)...
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--> 64f2583a73b
STEP 4/5: ENV LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=ja_JP:ja LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 TZ="Asia/Tokyo"
--> 7aade810f7c
STEP 5/5: USER 1001
COMMIT amd64-websphere-liberty:23.0.0.3-full-java17-openj9-jp
--> 78bbe9bddab
Successfully tagged localhost/amd64-websphere-liberty:23.0.0.3-full-java17-openj9-jp
78bbe9bddab06db1abaca8c6d0b8e2ca59908ea979ec07adb833714f50ed8d00
3.Run from the image and see if successfully running.
$ podman images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
localhost/amd64-websphere-liberty 23.0.0.3-full-java17-openj9-jp 78bbe9bddab0 6 seconds ago 828 MB
$ podman run -d -p 9080:9080 -p 9443:9443 --name libertypodman localhost/amd64-websphere-liberty:23.0.0.3-full-java17-openj9-jp
5194c9971675cf84ce8dc9b609c7c44b44ea74c5b3b29f421d68ba47a318a8ba
$ podman ps -a
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
5194c9971675 localhost/amd64-websphere-liberty:23.0.0.3-full-java17-openj9-jp /opt/ibm/wlp/bin/... 4 seconds ago Up 4 seconds 0.0.0.0:9080->9080/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9443->9443/tcp libertypodman
4.Check the inside of the container to check if JP locale is set and logs are written in JP.
$ podman exec -it libertypodman /bin/sh
$ locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
POSIX
en_US.utf8
ja_JP.utf8
$ locale
LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=ja_JP:ja
LC_CTYPE="ja_JP.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="ja_JP.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="ja_JP.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="ja_JP.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="ja_JP.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="ja_JP.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="ja_JP.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="ja_JP.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="ja_JP.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="ja_JP.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="ja_JP.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="ja_JP.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8
$ cd logs
$ ls
messages.log
$ cat messages.log
********************************************************************************
product = WebSphere Application Server 23.0.0.3 (wlp-1.0.75.cl230320230319-1900)
wlp.install.dir = /opt/ibm/wlp/
server.output.dir = /opt/ibm/wlp/output/defaultServer/
java.home = /opt/java/openjdk
java.version = 17.0.6
java.runtime = IBM Semeru Runtime Open Edition (17.0.6+10)
os = Linux (5.17.5-300.fc36.aarch64; amd64) (ja_JP)
process = 1@5194c9971675
Classpath = /opt/ibm/wlp/bin/tools/ws-server.jar:/opt/ibm/wlp/bin/tools/ws-javaagent.jar
Java Library path = /opt/java/openjdk/lib/default:/opt/java/openjdk/lib:/usr/lib64:/usr/lib
********************************************************************************
[2023/04/26 14:21:22:376 JST] 00000001 com.ibm.ws.kernel.launch.internal.FrameworkManager A CWWKE0001I: サーバー defaultServer が起動されました。
[2023/04/26 14:21:23:008 JST] 00000001 com.ibm.ws.kernel.launch.internal.FrameworkManager A CWWKE0100I: この製品は、開発使用向け、および限定的な実動使用向けにライセンスが交付されています。 全ライセンス条項は以下で表示可能です: https://public.dhe.ibm.com/ibmdl/export/pub/software/websphere/wasdev/license/base_ilan/ilan/23.0.0.3/lafiles/ja.html
$ exit
Thanks.
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rinaxsumomo
Posted on April 27, 2023
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