Deploying the API Analytics subsystem on Linux® x86_64 (CLI)

Deploy the individual API Analytics subsystem. This procedure uses the CLI.

API Connect subsystems can be installed by creating individual subsystem custom resources (CRs), instead of using an API Connect cluster.

There are four subsystems that can be installed:

Deploying API Analytics involves three main tasks:

  1. Installing the certificate manager in the subsystem namespace

  2. Setting up the certificates

  3. Deploying API Analytics

Installing the certificate manager in the subsystem namespace

  1. Log in to your cluster with your OpenShift user credentials:

    oc login
  2. If you installed the operators in All namespaces on the cluster mode, you need to use a project other than openshift-operators in which to deploy the instances.

    • If needed, create a new project in which to create the Operand Request object:

      oc new-project <project_name>

      For example:

      oc new-project integration
  3. Create a file called operand-request.yaml and add the following content:

    apiVersion: operator.ibm.com/v1alpha1
    kind: OperandRequest
    metadata:
      name: ibm-apiconnect-cert-manager
    spec:
      requests:
      - operands:
        - name: ibm-cert-manager-operator
        registry: common-service
        registryNamespace: ibm-common-services
  4. Create the resource:

    oc apply -f operand-request.yaml

Setting up the certificates

  1. Change to the namespace where you want to install the subsystem:

    oc project <namespace>
  2. If you have installed the API Manager subsystem in another namespace, extract the API Manager ingress-ca certificates.

    oc -n <api manager namespace> get secret ingress-ca -o yaml > ingress-ca.yaml
  3. Edit the ingress-ca.yaml file and remove the following properties:

    • metadata.creationTimestamp

    • metadata.namespace

    • metadata.resourceVersion

    • metadata.uid

    • metadata.selfLink Keep this file. You will need to apply it in the namespaces of your other subsystems so that they can communicate with the API Manager subsystem.

  4. Apply the file to the API Analytics namespace:

    oc apply -f ingress-ca.yaml
  5. Create a file that is called api-analytics-certs.yaml and paste in the following contents:

    apiVersion: cert-manager.io/v1
    kind: Issuer
    metadata:
      name: selfsigning-issuer
      labels: {
        app.kubernetes.io/instance: "api-manager",
        app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: "ibm-apiconnect",
        app.kubernetes.io/name: "selfsigning-issuer"
      }
    spec:
      selfSigned: {}
    ---
    apiVersion: cert-manager.io/v1
    kind: Issuer
    metadata:
      name: ingress-issuer
      labels: {
        app.kubernetes.io/instance: "api-manager",
        app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: "ibm-apiconnect",
        app.kubernetes.io/name: "ingress-issuer"
      }
    spec:
      ca:
        secretName: ingress-ca
  6. Apply the file to your namespace:

    oc apply -f api-analytics-certs.yaml
  7. Verify that the command installation succeeded:

    oc get issuers

    All issuers created successfully:

    NAME                 READY
    ingress-issuer       True
    selfsigning-issuer   True

Deploying API Analytics

  1. Create a AnalyticsCluster YAML file. For example, you can create a file that is called api-analytics.yaml with the following example configuration. All fields in the example are required. Update the values as applicable for your configuration:

    apiVersion: analytics.apiconnect.ibm.com/v1beta1
    kind: AnalyticsCluster
    metadata:
      name: api-analytics
      labels: {
        app.kubernetes.io/instance: "api-analytics",
        app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: "ibm-apiconnect",
        app.kubernetes.io/name: "api-analytics"
      }
      annotations: {
        apiconnect-operator/cp4i: "false"
      }
    spec:
      version: 10.0.6.0
      license:
        accept: false
        use: production
        license: L-KZXM-S7SNCU
      profile: n1xc2.m16
      microServiceSecurity: certManager
      certManagerIssuer:
        name: selfsigning-issuer
        kind: Issuer
      ingestion:
        endpoint:
          annotations:
            cert-manager.io/issuer: ingress-issuer
          hosts: 
          - name: ai.$STACK_HOST
            secretName: analytics-ai-endpoint
        clientSubjectDN: CN=analytics-ingestion-client,O=cert-manager
      storage:
        type: shared
        shared:
          volumeClaimTemplate:
            storageClassName: <storage-class>
            volumeSize: 50Gi
    • Change the value of spec.license.accept to true if you accept the license agreement. For more information, see Licensing.

    • Do not remove the annotation of apiconnect-operator/cp4i: "false". This annonation guarantees that API Analytics does not attempt to integration with the Platform UI. This integration is not supported.

    • For spec.license.use enter production or nonproduction to match the type of license that you purchased.

    • For spec.license.license enter the license ID for the API Connect program that you purchased. To get the available license IDs, see API Connect licenses in the API Connect documentation.

    • For spec.profile enter the type of installation profile that you want. For more information, see API Connect deployment profiles for OpenShift and Cloud Pak for Integration.

    • For spec.version enter the API Connect product version or channel to be installed.

    • For <storage-class>, specify the RWO block storage class to use for persistence storage. For more information about selecting storage classes for Cloud Pak for Integration, see Storage considerations. To review API Connect storage support, see the "Supported storage types" section in Deployment requirements, in the API Connect documentation.

    • Replace $STACK_HOST with the desired ingress subdomain for the API Connect stack. This variable is used when specifying endpoints. Domain names that are used for endpoints cannot contain the underscore "_" character. The host on OpenShift is typically prefixed by apps. Such as apps.subnet.example.com.

    • If you want to enable additional analytics features, you can set them as described in Analytics subsystem CR configured settings.

  2. Optional: Three replica deployments only: Enable dedicated storage. If you want to use dedicated storage, update the spec.storage section of the yaml file as follows:

    storage:
      type: dedicated
      shared:
        volumeClaimTemplate:
          storageClassName: <storage-class>
          volumeSize: 50Gi
      master:
        volumeClaimTemplate:
          storageClassName: <storage-class>

    For more information about dedicated storage, see Dedicated storage instead of shared storage.

  3. Apply the YAML file to the cluster:

    oc apply -f api-analytics.yaml
  4. Check the status of API Analytics by running the following command in the project (namespace) where it was deployed:

    oc get AnalyticsCluster

    The installation is complete when the READY status changes to True, and the SUMMARY reports that all services are online:

    NAME         READY   SUMMARY   VERSION    RECONCILED VERSION       AGE
    api-analytics   True   6/1       <version>   <version-build>       7m17s

What's next?

  • Install other subsystems as needed.

  • When you have completed the installation of all required API Connect subsystems, you can proceed to defining your API Connect configuration by using the API Connect Cloud Manager; refer to the Cloud Manager configuration checklist.