z/OS Cloud Broker prerequisites

Before you install IBM® z/OS® Cloud Broker, you must meet the system requirements and complete the deployment requirements for OpenShift® Container Platform.

System hardware requirements

System software requirements

Important: Ensure that the templates of software services that you want to provision through z/OS Cloud Broker are published in z/OSMF. For more information about publishing software service templates in z/OSMF, see Prepare and publish a template.

OpenShift Container Platform deployment requirements

Requirements for IBM Cloud Pak foundational services

For z/OS Cloud Broker 1.3.2 or later If you are installing z/OS Cloud Broker 1.3.2 or later and License Service is not already installed on your cluster, you must install IBM Cloud Pak foundational services.

To see the requirements for IBM Cloud Pak foundational services, refer to Hardware requirements and recommendations for foundational services.