Db2 Warehouse for Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes

Db2 Warehouse can be deployed in a Red Hat® OpenShift®(RHOS) cluster as a containerized micro-service, or pod, managed by Kubernetes.

While it is possible to deploy the containerized version of Db2 Warehouse on other Kubernetes-managed container platforms, the documentation focuses on the Red Hat OpenShift deployment.

You deploy Db2 Warehouse to your OpenShift cluster through a series of API calls to the Db2® Operator. The table below lists the Db2 Operators that have been released in the version v110508.x to v110509.x channels, and their supported Db2 Warehouse versions for deployment on OpenShift.

The Db2 Warehouse containerized solution utilizes both OpenShift and Kubernetes. This relationship determines the lifespan of each Db2 containerized solution. When the supporting OpenShift and Kubernetes versions are no longer supported, any Db2 Warehouse containerized solution that is based on those versions is also no longer supported.

Table 1. Db2 Operators and their associated Db2 engines
Db2 Operator version Db2 Operator upgrade channel Db2 Engine version OCP Version Container Application Software for Enterprises (CASE) version sha
110508.0.1 v110508.0 s11.5.8.0-cn1 4.10, 4.12 5.1.2 icr.io/cpopen/ibm-db2uoperator-catalog@sha256:3c6fdeae52dffa02809bc268ac8d494b129566c296ea805e2eefb8b9a3fa028e
110508.0.2 v110508.0 s11.5.8.0-cn2 4.10, 4.12 5.1.4 icr.io/cpopen/ibm-db2uoperator-catalog@sha256:b81bc9eac5be21c17d20fb5a5af8bc30a644889b18021d12164b7f2439f9fdb0
110508.0.3 v110508.0 s11.5.8.0-cn3 4.10, 4.12 5.4.2 icr.io/cpopen/ibm-db2uoperator-catalog@sha256:986c54823f2d536e2dd35fa60d8e875786ef7bc0d9e8f87b39e90a7730fc6d70
110509.0.0 v110509.0 s11.5.9.0 4.12, 4.13, 4.14 5.6.0 icr.io/cpopen/ibm-db2uoperator-catalog@sha256:7d00366552d438c612716c1ce43f596eab9a0d97728a65130a0aee6d9640b60d
110509.0.1 v110509.0 s11.5.9.0-cn1 4.12, 4.13, 4.14 5.6.2 icr.io/cpopen/ibm-db2uoperator-catalog@sha256:fd7242e7a42f9b952af4d1db2b67878820352a5c1ce946637c9b954170c412f2
110509.0.2 v110509.0 s11.5.9.0-cn2 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16 6.0.1+20240704.142950.9960 icr.io/cpopen/ibm-db2uoperator-catalog@sha256:cce9cbd9ad9e948d030290b03ba64cc95d368a7aaf44405b84266ee12e600598
110509.0.3 v110509.0 s11.5.9.0-cn3 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16, 4.17 6.0.3+20241012.145531.11278 icr.io/cpopen/ibm-db2uoperator-catalog@sha256:3d8a379ecc97328eee2e4d5c83f380c87f1b5a32c4097112116f24f287226830
110509.0.4 (Latest) v110509.0 s11.5.9.0-cn4 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16, 4.17 7.1.2+20250225.203119.13354 icr.io/cpopen/ibm-db2uoperator-catalog@sha256:d6b6fcd8be9359bc8854fb314a6a73b6b5018d3dda2a005a1d16f8b15b18d1a8
Note: To operate on 110509.0.x versions, change the upgrade channel from the default channel value to v110509.0.
Attention: 1The containerized release of Db2 Warehouse 11.5.8 includes a code split from the IBM® Cloud Pak for Data product. As a result, the numbering scheme for the Db2 Operator changed for Db2 Warehouse deployments on OpenShift and Kubernetes. Operators of version 3.x and higher are intended for deployments on Cloud Pak for Data and should not be obtained for standalone deployments of Db2 Warehouse on OpenShift or Kubernetes.
The table below lists the Db2 Operator channels and the Db2 engine versions they support.
Table 2. Db2 Operator channels and supported Db2 engine versions
Channel Db2 engine version
v110508.0 11.5.8
v110509.0 11.5.9

If you are new to the world of containers and Kubernetes and would like to learn more, please see the Core Concepts section of the Red Hat OpenShift Documentation site.