Supported operating environment for Kubernetes

Kubernetes-only contentReview this information for details about the system requirements for installing the IBM® App Connect Operator on a Kubernetes cluster, and unsupported capabilities.

Minimum requirements

The minimum requirements for installation are as follows:

  • The Kubernetes version of the cluster must be 1.25.x or 1.27.x.
  • Only Linux® 64-bit (x86-64) is supported.
  • Operator SDK 1.2.0 or later is required.

Unsupported capabilities

The following capabilities are not supported on a Kubernetes cluster:

  • Installation of the IBM App Connect Operator in a restricted network (which has no connection to the internet) is not supported.
  • IBM Cloud Pak foundational services (formerly IBM Cloud Platform Common Services) are not supported:
    • Identity and access management (IAM)
    • Monitoring dashboards
  • The CloudPakForIntegrationNonProductionFREE, CloudPakForIntegrationNonProduction, and CloudPakForIntegrationProduction licenses are not supported for creating IBM App Connect authoring or runtime environments, or other resources.
    Note:

    If you have purchased IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, you are entitled to use both CloudPakForIntegration and AppConnectEnterprise style licenses. If you want to run the IBM App Connect Operator in a Kubernetes environment, you can independently install the Operator in your cluster and then apply AppConnectEnterprise style licenses when creating the required environments or resources.

    For information about the supported licenses for Kubernetes environments, see Licensing reference for IBM App Connect Operator.

  • Automated route creation is not supported. To access any deployed IBM App Connect authoring or runtime environments, or other resources from the internet, ingress rules must be defined to route paths to the internal services and ports. For more information, see Creating ingress definitions for external access to your IBM App Connect instances.