Deploying an IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit integration to an integration runtime on Red Hat OpenShift
This tutorial introduces some IBM® App Connect in containers concepts and describes how you can deploy a broker archive (BAR) file, which was developed by using the IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit, to a runtime environment.
You can export BAR files from development environments such as App Connect Designer, App Connect on IBM Cloud, or the IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit, and then deploy these files as Designer or Toolkit integrations to integration servers or integration runtimes. In the containerized environment, the integration server and integration runtime custom resource types both enable you to run an integration solution as an always-on deployment, which is always running or available in your cluster. Integration runtimes also support OpenTelemetry tracing of your Toolkit flows to make your integration runtime deployments observable, and serverless deployments of API flows that are authored in a Designer instance.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to deploy Toolkit integrations to an integration runtime, and will use a supplied BAR file, which contains a simple message flow, to walk through the concepts and sequence. Two alternative scenarios are provided to walk you through the deployment process within a Red Hat OpenShift environment. The first scenario uses the command line and the second scenario uses the App Connect Dashboard user interface. These walk-throughs are designed to be completed in sequence.