Following on from the previous scenarios in this series, we now explain how to deploy a simple flow onto Red Hat OpenShift using the IBM App Connect Dashboard.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. In Scenario 2a we introduced the App Connect ‘operator’. This works as a sort of digital assistant to help us look after App Connect containers. In that scenario, we used the operator to deploy a container via the Kubernetes command line. In this scenario, we’re going to do exactly the same deployment but instead through a user interface known as the App Connect Dashboard. The App Connect Dashboard is a user interface that provides a simplified way to deploy BAR files within App Connect containers and administer them once live. Some of the facilities it provides are: Note that we described both ‘operators’ and ‘configurations’ in Scenario 2a should you need to go back and refresh your understanding of them. Clearly, the dashboard provides some powerful convenience features, but it does require some additional installation steps, configuration, and slightly increases the footprint on your installation. This is why we have made it optional, since some will prefer to use just the command line option. The Dashboard code is actually part of the operator that we installed in Scenario 2a, so if you have not done that yet, install the App Connect Operator. To keep the footprint light, the operator does not automatically install an instance of the App Connect Dashboard, so you’ll need to do that next.
