Integrating with Cloud Pak foundational services

IBM Cloud Pak® foundational services are optional, foundational services that can be shared by multiple products that are installed on the same Red Hat® OpenShift® cluster.

What are common services?

The common services help you manage and administer IBM software on your cluster. For example, the Cloud Pak foundational services include services such as the License Service and the Identity and Access Management Service.

A common service is installed once and is used by any applications that can integrate with the service. For example, you install IBM® Cloud Pak for Data and another IBM Cloud Pak on your Red Hat OpenShift cluster. If both platforms support the License Service, you can install one instance of the License Service and both platforms will use that instance of the License Service.

Supported common services

Cloud Pak for Data integrates with the following Cloud Pak foundational services:
Service About this service Why should I install this service? Supported on
Events Service The Events Service enables other services to create and manage Kafka Clusters and Kafka Topics. Install this service only if you plan to install Watson™ Assistant on Red Hat OpenShift Version 4.5 or 4.6.
  • Red Hat OpenShift Version 4.5 or 4.6
IAM Service The Identity and Access Management Service (IAM Service) enables you to create a single point of entry for access management and single sign-on (SSO).
Supported version
3.x
Learn more
See the IAM Service documentation in the IBM Cloud Pak foundational services Knowledge Center
Install this service if you plan to install multiple applications that support the IAM Service on your cluster.

Cloud Pak for Data has its own identity and access management implementation, so this service is unnecessary if you don't have other applications that support the IAM Service on your cluster.

  • Red Hat OpenShift Version 4.5 or 4.6
License Service Measure your Virtual Processor Core (VPC) usage data so that you can stay within your license terms.
Supported version
1.2.3 or later
Learn more
See the License Service documentation in the IBM Cloud Pak foundational services Knowledge Center
Install this service if you want to measure your actual VPC usage against your license terms.
  • Red Hat OpenShift Version 3.11
  • Red Hat OpenShift Version 4.5 or 4.6