Deploy IBM Sterling B2B Integrator on OpenShift using Ansible Scripts

Playbook will run the last version of Sterling B2Bi, but take care of Kubernetes/Openshift version is supported

Sterling B2Bi	OpenShift	Kubernetes	helm-chart	Helm
6.2.0.2	>= 4.14	>= 1.27	3.0.5	>= 3.15.x
6.2.0.2	>= 4.14 and <= 4.15	>= 1.27 and <= 1.29	3.0.4	>= 3.14.x
6.2.0.1	>= 4.13 and <= 4.14	>= 1.26 and <= 1.28	3.0.1	>= 3.13.x
6.2.0.0	>= 4.12 and <= 4.13	>= 1.25 and <= 1.27	3.0.0	>= 3.12.x

Check with

kubectl version

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-websphere 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

Deploying Sterling B2B Integrator

1) First you need to provide SI_INSTANCEID, this is used to define your environment. Samples: dev01, dev02, poc01, qa01, prod01

export SI_INSTANCEID=dev01

2) (Optional) change your version:

We always run the last version of Sterling B2Bi, but you can choose to run a different version, based on your RH OpenShift version.

export SI_VERSION=6.2.0.2

3) To run playbook the playbook

ansible-playbook playbooks/deploy_sb2b.yml

Deploy Sterling B2Bi using prebuilt db.

If your using SB2Bi for a prove of concept and get the environment provided in 10 minutes, i suggest to deploy using prebuilt db.

Tip

You need to have a backup from a previous install, we cannot provide because of copyright

1) Define previous environment variables

export SI_INSTANCEID=dev01

2) Provide your Sterling B2BI database backup

export SI_PREBUILTDB_FILE=/tmp/B2BI_6202.tar.gz

3) disable database setup and upgrade

export SI_DATASETUP_ENABLED=false
export SI_DATASETUP_UPGRADE=false

4) Run prebuilt playbook

ansible-playbook playbooks/deploy_sb2b_prebuiltdb.yml

Environment Variable

For all environment variables