Open Liberty Operator

The Open Liberty Operator can be used to deploy and manage applications running on Open Liberty or WebSphere Liberty into Kubernetes-based platforms, such as Red Hat OpenShift. You can also perform Day-2 operations such as gathering traces and dumps using the operator.

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Operator Installation

You can install the Open Liberty Operator directly via kubectl commands or assisted by the Operator Lifecycle Manager.

Use the instructions for one of the releases to directly install this Operator into a Kubernetes cluster.

Overview

The architecture of the Open Liberty Operator follows the basic controller pattern: the Operator container with the controller is deployed into a Pod and listens for incoming resources with Kind: OpenLibertyApplication.

In addition, Open Liberty Operator makes it easy to perform Day-2 operations on an instance of Open Liberty server running inside a Pod: - Gather server traces using resource Kind: OpenLibertyTrace - Generate server dumps using resource Kind: OpenLibertyDump - Gather server performance data using resource Kind: OpenLibertyPerformanceData

Documentation

For information on how to use the Open Liberty Operator, see the documentation.

License

Usage is provided under the EPL 2.0 license. See LICENSE for the full details.

Contributing

We welcome all contributions to the Open Liberty Operator project. Please see our Contributing guidelines.