Installing ibm-itx-rs-prod Package

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About this task

Installing ibm-itx-rs-prod Helm Chart package onto a Kubernetes platform involves the following steps:

Procedure

  1. Extract the ibm-itx-rs-prod Helm Chart package, ibm-itx-rs-prod-3.2.0.tgz, to a directory on the local machine.
  2. Open values.yaml file and customize the configuration for ibm-itx-rs application:
    1. Some of the configuration settings have the defaults set and some others have been left blank for the user to fill based on their Kubernetes platform requirements and environment.
    2. Adding an image pull secret information to pull image from an image registry, storage class information to provision the persistent volume claims for persistence needs to save the map, input and output files.
    3. Setting Runtime Server application specific configuration, for example, resource registry configuration file, log configuration for Server access, service and server logs and their log levels.
  3. Deploy ibm-itx-rs-prod Helm Chart to your Kubernetes platform with the following command: 
    helm install itx-rs ibm-itx-rs-prod

    The itx-rs designation in the above command is an example release name that helps identify the current deployment of ibm-itx-rs-prod.

  4. A successful deployment of ibm-itx-rs-prod to the Kubernetes platform displays as following:
    IBM Sterling Transformation Extender for Red Hat OpenShift deployed successfully
  5. After customizations have been saved in the values.yaml, the charts can be saved as a package, ibm-itx-rs-prod-3.2.0.tgz, for future deployments using the following command where the ibm-itx-rs-prod package has been extracted earlier: 
    helm package

    You can optionally install the future ibm-itx-rs-prod package as follows:

    helm install itx-rs ibm-itx-rs-prod-3.2.0.tgz
  6. To uninstall ibm-itx-rs-prod deployment from the cluster, run the following command: 
    helm uninstall itx-rs