IBM Sterling Order Management System Operator overview

An Operator is a custom Kubernetes controller that uses custom resources to manage applications and their components. High-level configuration and settings are provided by the user within a custom resource. The Kubernetes Operator translates the high-level directives into the low-level actions, based on best practices embedded within the Operator’s logic.

The Sterling™ Order Management System Operator follows the Kubernetes Operator paradigm to simplify the order management ecosystem by using purpose-driven custom resources. A primary custom resource that is named OMEnvironment is introduced to act as a single window of configuration for setting up an order management ecosystem. All the necessary configurations such as images, storage, network policy, jvm parameters, customer overrides, and more are accepted through the OMEnvironment. These configurations help to setup a fully functional integrated Sterling Order Management System environment.

For more information about the basic environment configuration after deployment of the default Sterling Order Management System Software images, see Deployment architecture.

For more information about the Operator installation, see Installing Operator online and in an airgap environment.