Installing

IBM Streams is deployed into a Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes environment by using Kubernetes operators. This deployment has the following implications:

• When you create a custom resource of an IBM Streams security service, instance, or build service, an IBM Streams security, runtime, or build environment is created and started by the Kubernetes operator.
• The IBM Streams security service, instance, and build service are composed of a set of management services that interact across one or more resources (Kubernetes pods).
• You can deploy multiple IBM Streams security services, instances, and build services within the same OpenShift project or Kubernetes namespace.
• Application resources are not started until you submit a job to the instance.

For more information about the Streams Kubernetes operators, see Streams Kubernetes operators and Docker images.