Enabling a feature through CR

You can use Product Master CR file to enable a feature.

About this task

You can enable any service by using CR file and minimize CPU usage and memory storage.

Following is the mapping between feature and services:
Feature Service
Digital Assets Management MongoDB
Free text search indexer, pimcollector, elasticsearch
Machine learning mongodb, ml
Global Data Synchronization ibmmq, gds

Procedure

  1. In the ipm_12.0.x_cr.yaml file, to make only GDS-related pods (ibmmq and gds) accessible, update the value of enable: gds property to 1. 
    
apiVersion: productmaster.ibm.com/v1
kind: ProductMaster
metadata:
  name: productmaster
spec:
  license:
    accept: true
  deployment_platform: 'openshift'
  #deployment_platform: 'k8s'

  version: 12.0.x

  domain_name: ""

  enable:
    fts: 0
    vendor: 1
    dam: 0
    ml: 0
    gds: 1
    wkc: 0
    sso: 0
    mountmgr: 1
    oidc: 0
  2. Reapply the updated CR by using the following command. 
    oc apply -f ipm_12.0.x_cr.yaml
productmaster.productmaster.ibm.com/productmaster configured

Results

GDS-related pods (ibmmq and gds) are up and running.