Db2 and Db2 Warehouse for Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes

Db2 and 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 and Db2 Warehouse on other Kubernetes-managed container platforms, the documentation focuses on the Red Hat OpenShift deployment.

You deploy Db2 and Db2 Warehouse to your Red Hat 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 v120100.x channel, and its supported Db2 and Db2 Warehouse versions for deployment on Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes.

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

Table 1. Db2 Operators and their associated engines
Db2 Operator version	Db2 Operator upgrade channel	Db2 Engine version	OCP Version	Container Application Software for Enterprises (CASE) version	sha
120100.0.0	v120100.0	s12.1.0.0	4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16, 4.17	7.0.0+20241023.082052.11505	icr.io/cpopen/ibm-db2uoperator-catalog@sha256:1cfbfba362cd70e6ce10742b36942e1d0d717c039b6d1544586e9ce5d3c0718d
120101.0.0	v120101.0	s12.1.1.0	4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16, 4.17	7.1.1+20250117.153233.12631	icr.io/cpopen/ibm-db2uoperator-catalog@sha256:d669d2287fe44e3bb66495ad27a151f0086dbe3cb907dc64ed7d959afba534be
120101.0.1 (Latest)	v120101.0	s12.1.1.0-cn1	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

Attention: The containerized release of Db2 and 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 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 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
v120100.0	12.1.0.0
v120101.0	12.1.1.0

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.