Kubernetes Operator

The IBM® Security Verify Directory operator provides lifecycle management of a scalable directory server environment.

Operators are software extensions to Kubernetes that use custom resources to manage applications and their components. Operators follow Kubernetes principles, notably the control loop.

The IBM Security Verify Directory operator manages the deployment of the replicated directory server containers, the initialization of the replicated data, and the deployment of the directory proxy. The directory proxy acts as an entry point into the environment. The environment is depicted in the following figure.

The number of replicated Directory server instances is scalable, based on the number of persistent volume claims specified in the YAML document. Each directory server instance requires a single pre-created PVC to store the Directory server data.

Further information on the installation and usage of the operator can be found in the associated GitHub project readme file https://github.com/IBM-Security/verify-directory-operator/blob/master/README.md.