Business Teams Service
The Business Teams Service (BTS) is a microservice that allows to administer and manage global teams across business applications.
A team is a collection of users, groups, and other teams that already exist. Unlike users and groups, teams are not stored in LDAP. BTS provides the team management capability, but does not perform authorization on behalf of the apps and components, which apply their own authorization policies. Teams can be associated with resources in components to control authorization to these resources.
This approach has several advantages over using your company-wide user registry groups directly:
- Teams can be short-lived or frequently changing, whereas user registry groups are often long-living.
- Global teams can be defined and changed without modifying your company user registry.
- An IT administrator is not required to manage these business-oriented teams. Business users can organize themselves in teams to perform team work, assign tasks or share resources such as performance dashboards or projects.
- Avoids the performance problems that can be caused when a company-wide user registry has too many groups.
BTS version history
The following table shows BTS versions, their prerequisites, and supported platforms:
| Release date | BTS operator version | BTS CASE version | Supported platforms | OpenShift Container Platform version | Enterprise Database (EDB) operator | EDB CASE | PostgreSQL version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 January 2024 | 3.32.0 | 1.0.22 | Linux x86_64 Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Linux on Power (ppc64le) |
4.11 - 4.14 | >=1.18.4 |
>=4.14.0 |
13.10 | |
| 16 November 2023 | 3.31.0 | 1.0.21 | Linux x86_64 Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Linux on Power (ppc64le) |
4.11 - 4.14 | >=1.18.4 |
>=4.14.0 |
13.10 | |
| 02 October 2023 | 3.30.0 | 1.0.20 | Linux x86_64 Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Linux on Power (ppc64le) |
4.10 - 4.13 | >=1.18.4 |
>=4.14.0 |
13.10 | |
| 11 August 2023 | 3.29.0 | 1.0.19 | Linux x86_64 Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Linux on Power (ppc64le) |
4.10 - 4.13 | >=1.18.4 |
>=4.14.0 |
13.10 | |
| 01 June 2023 | 3.28.0 | 1.0.18 | Linux x86_64 Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Linux on Power (ppc64le) |
4.10 - 4.13 | >=1.18.1 |
>=4.11.0 |
13.9 |
Notes:
- EDB operator and EDB CASE list the prerequisite versions of the IBM-provided EDB Cloud Native PostgreSQL operator and its CASE bundle.
- You can download the respective EDB CASE bundles from here: https://github.com/IBM/cloud-pak/tree/master/repo/case/ibm-cloud-native-postgresql