Open Liberty Operator

This repository hosts the Open Liberty Operator to be used in Kubernetes clusters.

Operator Image

Current image in Docker Hub: openliberty/operator:0.0.1

Instructions to install and use the Open Liberty Operator

• Fetch a Linux VM

• Download and unpack oc client

  • https://github.com/openshift/origin/releases/download/v3.11.0/openshift-origin-client-tools-v3.11.0-0cbc58b-linux-64bit.tar.gz
  • tar -zxvf <tar.gz>
    • you get the oc client and kubectl client with this. You should add these into your PATH

• Start OKD cluster (5-10 minutes):

  • oc cluster up --public-hostname=<hostNameorIP> --skip-registry-check=true
    • You should see some information about how to reach your Web Console, etc
  • oc login -u system:admin

• Install Operator artifacts

  • git clone https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty-operator.git
  • cd open-liberty-operator
  • kubectl apply -f olm/open-liberty-crd.yaml
  • kubectl apply -f deploy/operator_rbac.yaml
  • kubectl apply -f deploy/operator_deployment.yaml

• Install SCC

  • cd helm-charts/ibm-open-liberty/ibm_cloud_pak/pak_extensions/pre-install/clusterAdministration
  • ./createSecurityClusterPrereqs.sh
  • cd ../namespaceAdministration
  • ./createSecurityNamespacePrereqs.sh <namespace>

• Test Operator with default CR

  • cd back up to project root
  • kubectl apply -f deploy/full_cr.yaml

• Bringing down the cluster:

  • oc cluster down
  • rm -rf <oc/openshift.local.clusterup>
    • If you get an error about a busy device, reboot the VM, and re-run rm -rf