The ibm-common-service-operator is a bridge to connect IBM Cloud Paks and Operand Deployment Lifecycle Manager (ODLM) with IBM Cloud Platform Common Services. You can also install the ibm-common-service-operator in stand-alone mode.
When you install this operator, the operator completes the following tasks:
OperandRegistry and OperandConfig in the service namespaceFor more information about installing this operator and other Common Services operators, see Installer documentation. If you are using this operator as part of an IBM Cloud Pak, see the documentation for that IBM Cloud Pak to learn more about how to install and use the operator service. For more information about IBM Cloud Paks, see IBM Cloud Paks that use Common Services.
For more information about the available IBM Cloud Platform Common Services, see the IBM Knowledge Center.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3 or newer installed on one of the following platforms:
Before you install this operator, you need to first install the operator prerequisites:
The IBM Common Service Operator supports running with the OpenShift Container Platform 4.3 default restricted Security Context Constraints (SCCs).
For more information about the OpenShift Container Platform Security Context Constraints, see Managing Security Context Constraints.
If, as a developer, you are looking to build and test this operator to try out and learn more about the operator and its capabilities, you can use the following developer guide. This guide provides commands for a quick install and initial validation for running the operator.
For more instructions on how to run end-to-end testing with the Operand Deployment Lifecycle Manager, see ODLM guide.