IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising Standard Operator overview

The IBM® Sterling Intelligent Promising Standard Operator simplifies deployment of your application when using containers.

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 converts the high-level directives into the low-level actions, based on best practices that are embedded within the Operator’s logic.

The IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising Operator follows the Kubernetes Operator paradigm to simplify management of a Sterling Intelligent Promising environment by using purpose-driven custom resources. A primary custom resource that is named SIPEnvironment is introduced to act as a single window of configuration for setting up a Sterling Intelligent Promising environment. All the necessary configurations, such as images, storage, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch, network policy, ingress, and more, are accepted through the SIPEnvironment custom resource to set up a fully functional, integrated Sterling Intelligent Promising environment.