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The Red Hat Marketplace Deployment Operator by IBM provides cluster and operator management for IBM Software Central and Red Hat Marketplace customers.

Important Note

A set of instructions for onboarding is provided here. For more detailed onboarding instructions or information about what is installed please visit swc.saas.ibm.com.

Usage metrics may be monitored through https://swc.saas.ibm.com with only IBM Metrics Operator and a Red Hat Marketplace account, and does not require Red Hat Marketplace Deployment Operator.

Full cluster registration and software lifecycle management through https://swc.saas.ibm.com requires both IBM Metrics Operator and Red Hat Marketplace Deployment Operator.

Upgrade Policy

The operator releases adhere to semantic versioning and provides a seamless upgrade path for minor and patch releases within the current stable channel.

Prerequisites

1. The Red Hat Markeplace Deployment Operator prerequisites the IBM Metrics Operator. Installing the Red Hat Markeplace Deployment Operator with Automatic approval on the Subscription will also install the IBM Metrics Operator automatically. If performing an install with Manual approval, install the IBM Metrics Operator first.

The IBM Metrics Operator prequisites the following

1. Installations are required to enable monitoring for user-defined projects as the Prometheus provider.

2. Edit the cluster-monitoring-config ConfigMap object:

   $ oc -n openshift-monitoring edit configmap cluster-monitoring-config
   

3. Add enableUserWorkload: true under data/config.yaml:

   apiVersion: v1
   kind: ConfigMap
   metadata:
     name: cluster-monitoring-config
       namespace: openshift-monitoring
   data:
     config.yaml: |
       enableUserWorkload: true
   

4. Configure the user-workload-monitoring-config ConfigMap object:

   $ oc -n openshift-user-workload-monitoring edit configmap user-workload-monitoring-config
   

5. Configure a minimum retention time of 168h and minimum storage capacity of 40Gi

   apiVersion: v1
   kind: ConfigMap
   metadata:
     name: user-workload-monitoring-config
     namespace: openshift-user-workload-monitoring
   
   data:
     config.yaml: |
       prometheus:
         retention: 168h
         volumeClaimTemplate:
           spec:
             resources:
               requests:
                 storage: 40Gi
   

Installation

1. Create or get your pull secret.

2. Install the IBM Metrics Operator and Red Hat Marketplace Deployment Operator

3. Create a Kubernetes secret in the installed namespace with the name redhat-marketplace-pull-secret and key PULL_SECRET with the value of the Red hat Marketplace Pull Secret.

   # Replace ${PULL_SECRET} with your secret from Red Hat Marketplace
   oc create secret generic redhat-marketplace-pull-secret -n redhat-marketplace --from-literal=PULL_SECRET=${PULL_SECRET}
   

4. Use of the platform is governed by the:

   IBM Cloud Services Agreement (or other base agreement between you and IBM such as a Passport Advantage Agreement) and the Service Description for the Red Hat Marketplace.

5. Update MarketplaceConfig to accept the license.

   oc patch marketplaceconfig marketplaceconfig -n redhat-marketplace --type='merge' -p '{"spec": {"license": {"accept": true}}}'
   

6. Install the pull secret as a global pull secret on the cluster.

   These steps require oc, jq, and base64 to be available on your machine.

   # Create the docker pull secret file using your pull secret.
   # Store it in a file called entitledregistryconfigjson.
   oc create secret docker-registry entitled-registry --docker-server=registry.marketplace.redhat.com --docker-username "cp" --docker-password "${PULL_SECRET}" --dry-run=client --output="jsonpath={.data.\.dockerconfigjson}" | base64 --decode > entitledregistryconfigjson
   # Get the current global secrets on the cluster and store it as a file named dockerconfigjson
   oc get secret pull-secret -n openshift-config --output="jsonpath={.data.\.dockerconfigjson}" | base64 --decode > dockerconfigjson
   # Merge the two dockerconfigs together into a file called dockerconfigjson-merged.
   jq -s '.[0] * .[1]' dockerconfigjson entitledregistryconfigjson > dockerconfigjson-merged
   # Set the cluster's dockerconfig file to the new merged version.
   oc set data secret/pull-secret -n openshift-config --from-file=.dockerconfigjson=dockerconfigjson-merged
   

Why is a global pull secret required?

In order to successfully install the products hosted by the container image registry, you will need to make the pull secret available across the cluster. This can be achieved by applying the pull as a global pull secret. For alternative approaches, please see the official OpenShift documentation.

Subscription Config

It is possible to configure how OLM deploys an Operator via the config field in the Subscription object.

The Red Hat Marketplace Deployment Operator will also read the config and append it to the operands. The primary use case is to control scheduling using Tolerations and NodeSelectors.

A limitation is that the config elements are only appended to the operands. The elements in the operands are not removed if the config is removed from the Subscripion. The operand must be modified manually, or deleted and recreated by the controller.

Cluster permission requirements

Documentation

You can find our documentation here.

Getting help

If you encounter any issues while using the operators, you can create an issue on our Github repo for bugs, enhancements, or other requests. You can also visit our main page and review our support and documentation.

Readme

You can find our readme here.

License information

You can find our license information here.