DevOps Automation licensing information

You can find the details of licensing that IBM® DevOps Automation (Automation) supports.

Automation supports the following 3 tiers of license:
  • Essentials (Tier 1): DevOps Plan, DevOps Control
  • Standard (Tier 2): DevOps Plan, DevOps Control, DevOps Test, DevOps Deploy
  • Premium (Tier 3): DevOps Plan, DevOps Control, DevOps Test, DevOps Deploy, DevOps Measure, DevOps Release
Each tier is defined by the number of DevOps products that it includes on the DevOps Automation platform.

Configuration

When you purchase one of these tiers, you must map the licenses to Rational License Key Server (RLKS). When you install Automation, you must specify the RLKS details, which are configured only through the Helm chart. In this release, there is no user interface to view or manage licensing. You can set the licensing information only by using the RLKS details in the Helm chart. For more information about managing licenses for your product, see these resources:
Note: When you run the lmutil command to retrieve the current license allocations from RLKS, the following values are displayed:
  • DevOpsNexusEssentials
  • DevOpsNexusStandard
  • DevOpsNexusPremium
The license feature names that are used by RLKS are different from the product name.

Usage

After a user is created, when the user logs in to Automation, then one license of the highest available tier is consumed. The user can access the products that are included in the licensing tier that is purchased.
Note: To enable or disable a user's license, contact IBM support. For more information, see IBM Support.

Troubleshooting

You can view the licensing logs by running the following command: 
kubectl logs <licensing_pod_name> -n <namespace>
Where, the namespace is defined by the Helm installation. You can find the licensing_pod_name by running the following command: 
kubectl get pods -n <namespace>
The pod name that contains 'licensing' in the name is listed.