Overview of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus container deployment

IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus can be installed on a Red Hat® OpenShift® cluster environment. The installation process uses the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator, which deploys and manages all the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus components on Red Hat OpenShift.

The IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator is a Docker image that uses Ansible® Operator technology. The image contains the Kubernetes configuration files that are necessary to deploy and upgrade IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.

If you plan to install IBM Spectrum Protect Plus in the IBM Cloud Pak® for Multicloud Management environment, you must use the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus operator for IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management. The operator also works in environments that do not have IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management installed.

The following figure is an example of how IBM Spectrum Protect Plus containers are deployed in OpenShift Container Platform.
Figure 1. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus container deployment diagram
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus container deployment diagram

For an overview of the container components, persistent storage requirements, networking requirements, and CPU and resource requirements, see IBM Spectrum Protect Plus as a set of containers requirements.