Operating environment
IBM Cloud Pak® for Integration requires a supported operating environment for installation.
Included environments
The following describes the supported operating environment for IBM Cloud Pak for Integration release 16.2.0:
- Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform version 4.14, 4.16, 4.18, 4.19, 4.20, or 4.21 * only.
- IBM Cloud Pak foundational services version 4.19 only.Important: Usage of Cloud Pak foundational services has changed in this release. Only install Cloud Pak foundational services if you need to install an API Connect cluster or an API Manager instance. Otherwise, Cloud Pak foundational services is no longer required.
- Azure Kubernetes Service
AKS versions 1.31 and 1.32 only
For more information see the "Supported Kubernetes distributions for operators" section that follows.
For more information on supported architectures, see the "Supported architectures for operators" section that follows.
Multi-zone and single-zone deployments, where appropriate storage providers are available to support that deployment model
OpenShift cluster examples
Cloud Pak for Integration runs on any OpenShift environment. This includes, but is not limited to, the following cluster types:
- An OpenShift cluster that is deployed manually by using Installer Provisioned Infrastructure or User Provisioned Infrastructure
This can include either of the following:
Manual deployments on a cloud provider, such as IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. For storage requirements, see the Red Hat documentation for the applicable cloud provider.
Other deployments, including on-premise. For information on storage requirements, see Storage considerations.
- A single-node OpenShift cluster
For more information, see Installing on a single node OpenShift (SNO) cluster.
- An OpenShift cluster that uses Red Hat OpenShift hosted control planes
This type of cluster can include, but is not limited to, Red Hat® OpenShift® Service on AWS (ROSA) with hosted control planes.
- A managed OpenShift cluster from a cloud provider, such as IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
For more information, see the following:
IBM Cloud - Getting started with Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud, in the IBM Cloud documentation
AWS/ROSA - Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS quick start guide, in the OpenShift documentation. For more information on the schedule for OpenShift Container Platform versions supported by OpenShift on AWS, see "Life cycle dates" in Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS update life cycle.
Azure - Create an Azure Red Hat OpenShift 4 cluster, in the Azure documentation
Google Cloud - Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated, in the Google Cloud documentation
Excluded environments
Cloud Pak for Integration does not support installing on an OpenShift cluster with multi-architecture compute machines.
Supported architectures for operators
The following table indicates which operators are supported for each environment.
| Operator | amd64 | s390x * | ppc64le ** |
|---|---|---|---|
| IBM Cloud Pak for Integration | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IBM Cloud Pak for Integration end-to-end monitoring | Yes | No | No |
| IBM Automation foundation assets | Yes | No | No |
| IBM API Connect | Yes | No | No |
| IBM App Connect | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IBM DataPower Gateway | Yes | No | No |
| IBM Event Streams | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IBM Event Endpoint Management | Yes | Yes | No |
| IBM Event Processing | Yes | Yes | No |
| IBM Operator for Apache Flink | Yes | Yes | No |
| IBM MQ | Yes | Yes | Yes |
* s390x includes support for Linux on IBM Z and IBM zCX Foundation for Red Hat OpenShift (zCX). For more information, see What is z/OS Container Extensions? in the z/OS documentation.
** ppc64le includes support for Linux on IBM Power 9, 10, and 11 hardware.
Supported Kubernetes distributions for operators
The following table indicates which operators are supported for each Kubernetes distribution.
| Operator | OpenShift | AKS | EKS | GKE | IKS | Certified K8s * |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IBM Cloud Pak for Integration | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| IBM Cloud Pak for Integration end-to-end monitoring | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| IBM Automation foundation assets | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| IBM API Connect | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IBM App Connect | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IBM DataPower Gateway | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IBM Event Streams | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IBM Event Endpoint Management | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IBM Event Processing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IBM Operator for Apache Flink | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IBM MQ | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Not all Cloud Pak for Integration features are available on non-OpenShift Kubernetes distributions.
* Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) certified Kubernetes distributions