Installing the Db2 Operator from the Red Hat Marketplace

The Red Hat® Marketplace provides a catalog of Operator products that can be purchased and installed on your Red Hat OpenShift® cluster. The IBM Db2 on Cloud Pak for Data Operator is provided as a free purchase.

Before you begin

Ensure that you complete the following prerequisite tasks:
  • Create an account with Red Hat Marketplace (see Account management for steps on how to register with the Marketplace).
  • Set up a working Red Hat OpenShift cluster.
  • Register your cluster with the Red Hat Marketplace (see Clusters for steps on how to register your cluster with the Marketplace).
  • Create an OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) Project (Namespace) on the OCP cluster.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Red Hat Marketplace.
  2. Using the field provided, search for.Db2
  3. Click the IBM Db2 on Cloud Pak for Data product tile to open the product details page.
  4. From the Pricing tab, click Get now.
  5. Click Purchase.
  6. Click View software, or select Workspace > My software, from the menu bar, and then click the IBM Db2 on Cloud Pak for Data tile.
  7. Click Install operator and ensure that the following items are selected:
    • The default selections for Update channel and Approval strategy.
    • Under Target clusters, in the Name column, the check box to the left of your registered cluster.
    • From the drop-down list in the Namespace scope column, the OCP namespace associated with your cluster. This is the project name that was used for operator deployment from the RHM portal.
  8. Click Install.
    After a few moments the Db2® Operator should be installed.
  9. From the Operators tab, select the drop-down list to the far-right of your operator and select Cluster Console.
  10. From the navigation panel, select Operators > Installed operators.
  11. From the top-left of the Installed operators page, expand the Project drop-down list and select your project/namespace.
  12. From the list of installed Operators, click IBM Db2 and follow the instructions on the Db2 Operators page to install Db2 to your Red Hat OpenShift cluster.