Installing IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager container

The containerized IBM® Security Guardium® Key Lifecycle Manager application provides a simpler installation and upgrade experience.

For the containerized installation, you must install the preinstalled images for the database and the application in the following order:
  1. Database
  2. IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager application
For more information, see Overview of IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager container.

You can install the containers on one of the following platforms:

Red Hat® OpenShift®
You can install IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager on Red Hat OpenShift.
For more information, see Installing on a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
Kubernetes
You can install the product in a containerized server cluster, managed by Kubernetes. IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager works with Kubernetes to simplify application deployment and manage versions in the containers.
For more information, see Installing on a Kubernetes cluster.
IBM zCX environment
IBM z/OS® Container Extensions (zCX) provides a Docker runtime environment on z/OS.

If you have a zCX instance available, you can deploy an IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager Docker container in it and have the product running in a z/OS address space.

For more information, see Installing on IBM zCX environment.