Deploy IBM Sterling Transformation Extender on OpenShift using Ansible Scripts

Playbook will run the last version of ITXA, but take care of Kubernetes/Openshift version is supported

ITX RS	OpenShift	Kubernetes	helm-chart	Helm
10.1.2.0.20231130	>= 4.13 and <= 4.15	>=1.26.0 <1.29.0	2.1.0	>= 3.14.x

Preparation

1. IBM Entitled Registry

You must have kubectl, oc, git and ansible installed in your machine

Log in the IBM Container software library with the IBMid and password that are associated with the entitled software. Click Get entitlement key. With key export variable

export ENTITLED_REGISTRY_KEY=<entitlement_key>

Do a login in Openshift console and run the command:

oc login --token=sha256~P...k --server=https://c....containers.cloud.xxx.com:31234

3. Cloning ansible-ibm-sterling from git

git clone https://github.com/ibm-sterling-devops/ansible-ibm-sterling.git

4. Set roles path

To run playbook the playbook

cd ansible-ibm-sterling

export ANSIBLE_CONFIG=./ansible.cfg

Deploy ITX RS

1) Define namespace

export ITX_RS_NAMESPACE=ibm-itx-rs-dev01

2) To run the playbook

ansible-playbook playbooks/deploy_itx_rs.yml

Environment Variable

Environment variables for this role:

Environment Variable	Default Value	Required	Description
ENTITLED_REGISTRY_KEY	N/A	Yes	Entitlement registry key
ITX_RS_NAMESPACE	N/A	Yes	Namespace for ITX application
ITX_RS_INSTANCEID	N/A	Yes	Instance ID for ITX application
ITX_RS_VERSION	10.1.2.0.20231130	No	Version of ITX application
ITX_RS_SYS_PASSPHRASE	Passw0rd@	No	System passphrase for ITX application