Installing middleware services in a production environment

Install the required middleware services on your production environment only. In a development environment, the IBM® Sterling Intelligent Promising Operator automatically installs the middleware services, Cassandra, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.

About this task

The following procedure explains how to install the required middleware services outside of the Operator, for a production environment.

Procedure

  1. Install the following middleware services.
    • Cassandra 4.1.0
    • Kafka 3.9.1
    • Elasticsearch 8.19.8
  2. Create Kafka topics for the Sterling Intelligent Promising services as listed in the Kafka topic list for the services. If you are using a multicluster setup, review the list of Kafka topic that are to be mirrored for each service For more information, see List of Kafka topics to be mirrored.
  3. Create the following keyspaces under Cassandra. For more information, see cassandra parameter.
    • <cassandra.iv_keyspace>
    • <cassandra.promising_keyspace
    • <cassandra.cas_keyspace>