Operating environment

IBM Cloud Pak® for Integration requires a supported operating environment for deployment.

The following describes the supported operating environment for IBM Cloud Pak for Integration release 2021.3:

Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform version 4.6.8 and later, 4.7.x, and 4.8.x. Note: IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is not currently supported on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform version 4.9.x.
IBM Cloud Pak foundational services version 3.8.0 and later, up to (but not including) version 4
IBM Automation Foundation version 1.1.x and 1.2.x
Linux 64-bit (x86_64) systems
Linux on IBM Z (supported operators are Platform Navigator, App Connect Dashboard and Integration Servers, Event Streams, Aspera HSTS, and MQ)
Multi-zone and single-zone deployments, where appropriate storage providers are available to support that deployment model

Included environments

Cloud Pak for Integration runs on any OpenShift environment. This includes but is not limited to:

A cluster deployed manually using Installer Provisioned Infrastructure or User Provisioned Infrastructure. See Setting up your Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster in the Getting Started with IBM Cloud Paks documentation.
- For installations on AWS, see Supported options on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for specific environment details including storage.
- For installations on Azure, see Supported options on Microsoft Azure for specific environment details including storage.
- For other installations, including on-premise, see Storage for storage requirements.
A managed cluster from a cloud provider, including:
- IBM Satellite; see Supported options on Microsoft Azure or Supported options on Amazon Web Services (AWS), depending on the cloud provider where the cluster nodes are running.
- Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud; see Supported options on IBM Cloud for specific environment details.
- Azure Red Hat OpenShift; see Supported options on Microsoft Azure for specific environment details.
- Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS; see Supported options on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for specific environment details. The level of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform provided must meet the minimum requirement for the version of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration you are installing.

IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is not available in other environments, such as Docker or open-source Kubernetes distributions.