Installing the Db2 Operator from the IBM Operator Catalog

IBM provides a catalog of product offerings in the form of a catalog index image. To view IBM offerings in the OpenShift Operator catalog, the catalog index image needs to be enabled. You enable the image on a Red Hat OpenShift V4.4 to V4.6 cluster through a CatalogSource resource.

Procedure

To enable the IBM Operator Catalog in your OpenShift cluster:

  1. From your OpenShift UI console, roll over the + icon on the tool bar and select Import YAML.
  2. Paste the following YAML content into the space provided: 
    apiVersion: operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1
kind: CatalogSource
metadata:
  name: ibm-operator-catalog
  namespace: openshift-marketplace
spec:
  displayName: "IBM Operator Catalog" 
  publisher: IBM
  sourceType: grpc
  image: icr.io/cpopen/ibm-operator-catalog
  updateStrategy:
    registryPoll:
      interval: 45m
  3. Click Create.
    From the navigation panel, under Provider Type, you should see an option for IBM Operators, from which you can install the Db2 Operator.

What to do next

You can verify the installation by running the following from the command line: 
oc get CatalogSources ibm-operator-catalog -n openshift-marketplace
  • If the installation was successful, you should see output that is similar to this:
    NAME                   DISPLAY                 TYPE   PUBLISHER      AGE
ibm-operator-catalog   IBM Operator Catalog    grpc   IBM            50s
  • If the installation failed, the following message is displayed:
    Error from server (NotFound): catalogsources.operators.coreos.com
                "ibm-operator-catalog" not found

    To help resolve this error, run the following command to check the pods and CatalogSource resources in the openshift-marketplace namespace:

    oc get catalogsource,pods -n openshift-marketplace

    The output should provide information about your CatalogSource resources and status of the pods; for example:

    NAME                           DISPLAY        TYPE  PUBLISHER  AGE
catalogsource.operators.coreos.com/certified-operators  Certified Operators  grpc  Red Hat   20d
catalogsource.operators.coreos.com/community-operators  Community Operators  grpc  Red Hat   20d
catalogsource.operators.coreos.com/ibm-operator-catalog  IBM Operator Catalog  grpc  IBM     48s
catalogsource.operators.coreos.com/opencloud-operators  IBMCS Operators    grpc  IBM     48s
catalogsource.operators.coreos.com/redhat-marketplace   Red Hat Marketplace  grpc  Red Hat   20d
catalogsource.operators.coreos.com/redhat-operators    Red Hat Operators   grpc  Red Hat   20d
NAME                    READY  STATUS  RESTARTS  AGE
pod/certified-operators-575f586fd8-m2ldh  1/1   Running  0     41m
pod/community-operators-57fd7676ff-sqzgs  1/1   Running  0     15h
pod/ibm-operator-catalog-85b2w       1/1   Running  0     48s
pod/marketplace-operator-5fcf68c65c-l8tcg  1/1   Running  0     5d8h
pod/opencloud-operators-wbb9k        1/1   Running  0     48s
pod/redhat-marketplace-665c9c6db4-hhfkd   1/1   Running  0     41m
pod/redhat-operators-8678ddbc5-6szpp    1/1   Running  0     4d1h