Installing the WebSphere Liberty operator
You can install the WebSphere Liberty operator on Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform (OCP) 4.12 for Linux® x86_64, Linux on Power (ppc64le), and Linux on IBM Z (s390x). You can also install the WebSphere Liberty operator on Kubernetes 1.22 for Linux x86_64, Linux on Power (ppc64le), and Linux on IBM Z (s390x). The only supported installation configuration is a customer-managed installation on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
You can install WebSphere Liberty operator to watch its own namespace, watch another namespace, or watch all namespaces in the cluster. You can install multiple operators in a single cluster. For issues or limitations that affect installation, see Known operator issues and limitations.
Prepare the environment and then install WebSphere Liberty operator with the Red Hat OpenShift console or CLI, or by using
kubectl in Kubernetes environments. If your environment is not connected to an
outside network, install WebSphere Liberty operator in
an air gap environment. After the installation completes, validate the installation.
A cluster administrator prepares the environment and completes the installation.
- Preparing for
installation
Prepare the environment before you install WebSphere Liberty operator.
- Installing WebSphere Liberty operator with the OpenShift
console
Install a WebSphere Liberty operator operator and create an instance of WebSphere Liberty operator with the Red Hat OpenShift console.
- Installing WebSphere Liberty operator with the OpenShift CLI
Install a WebSphere Liberty operator operator and create an instance of WebSphere Liberty operator with the Red Hat OpenShift command-line interface (CLI).
- Installing WebSphere Liberty operator with the Kubernetes
CLI
Install the WebSphere Liberty operator on a Kubernetes cluster that is not a Red Hat OpenShift cluster.
- Installing WebSphere Liberty operator on the IBM
Cloud
Install WebSphere Liberty operator on any public cloud that has a supported version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), or that has a supported version of Kubernetes for a non-OCP Kubernetes cluster.
- Installing in an air gap
environment
Install WebSphere Liberty operator in an air gap environment.
- Validating installation
Validate the WebSphere Liberty operator installation with Red Hat OpenShift CLI (
oc) commands. - Updating WebSphere Liberty operator
Update the WebSphere Liberty operator to the most recent version.
- Uninstalling WebSphere Liberty operator
Uninstall the WebSphere Liberty operator with Red Hat OpenShift CLI (
oc) commands.