The Developer Edition's (previously known as Light Edition) aim is to assist the developer, administrator and technical presale staff to evaluate the product on a workstation environment.

It is geared towards the DataPower developer that wants to run DPOD on their development workstation, in the context of limited functionality Proof Of Concept.

The Developer Edition should NOT be used for customer POCs. For customer POCs it is recommended to use at least the Standard Edition with the Minimal deployment profile.

The Developer Edition does not support any upgrades. Each new version requires a full reinstall of the product.

What are the major differences?

The Developer Edition is identical to the GA Edition and has all of its components. It differs in the following aspects:

• Less hardware & software requirements
• Limited configuration
• One extra post-installation step

How to Identify a Developer Edition installation?

The following can be used to identify a Developer Edition:

• The ISO filename should be DPOD-Developer-CentOS-<version>.iso and can be downloaded from Fix Central.
• The CentOS installation screen will show Developer Edition.
• A single configuration setup for development that exists only in the Development ISO file.

Less Hardware and Software Requirements

Please view the product Hardware and Software requirements that include the Developer Edition's requirements.

Limitations

Developer Edition installations are limited to 10 monitored devices.
Developer Edition installations are limited to 90 days. After 90 days, you will be redirected to a license page where a license request key can be generated.
Send the license request key to an IBM representative to get your license (the representative's email address will appear on screen).

The Developer Edition allows only limited configuration. This means:

• A single deployment profile
• 1 WS-M agent
• 1 Syslog agent
• Limited amount of data collected
• No support for upgrades / fixpacks

Docker container for Light Developer edition

For developer usage only, there is a Docker container packaging the allows faster deployment with minimum resources to run on laptops or to demonstrate basic functionalities of DPOD. Please read more here.