Installing Venafi Control Plane Operator¶
Installing Venafi Control Plane Operator for Red Hat OpenShift is a simple procedure, done directly from OperatorHub.
Installing Venafi Control Plane Operator by using the OpenShift web console¶
Prerequisites¶
- You have access to the OpenShift Container Platform web console.
- You have access to the cluster with
cluster-admin
privileges.
How to install Venafi Control Plane Operator using the OpenShift web console¶
- Log in to the OpenShift Container Platform web console.
- Navigate to Operators, then click on OperatorHub.
- Enter Venafi Control Plane Operator into the filter field.
- Select the Venafi Control Plane Operator provided by Venafi.
- Select the Venafi Control Plane Operator version from the Version drop-down list, and click Install.
- On the Install Operator page:
- Update the Update channel, if necessary. The channel defaults to
stable
, which installs the latest stable release of the Venafi Control Plane Operator. - Choose the Installed Namespace for the Operator. The default Operator namespace is
venafi
. If thevenafi
namespace does not exist, it is created for you. - Select an Update approval strategy.
- The Automatic strategy allows Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) to automatically update the Operator when a new version is available.
- The Manual strategy requires a user with appropriate credentials to approve the Operator update.
- Click Install.
- Update the Update channel, if necessary. The channel defaults to
Verifying the installation¶
- Navigate to Operators, then click on Installed Operators.
- Verify that Venafi Control Plane Operator is listed with a Status of Succeeded in the
venafi
namespace.
Installing Venafi Control Plane Operator using the OpenShift CLI tool¶
Prerequisites¶
- You have the OpenShift CLI tool (
oc
) available on your system. - You have access to the cluster with
cluster-admin
privileges.
How to install Venafi Control Plane Operator using the OpenShift CLI tool¶
-
Create a new project named
venafi
by running the following command:oc new-project venafi
-
Create an
OperatorGroup
object:-
Create a YAML file, for example,
operatorGroup.yaml
, with the following content:operatorGroup.yamlapiVersion: operators.coreos.com/v1 kind: OperatorGroup metadata: name: vcp-operator namespace: venafi spec: targetNamespaces: - "venafi"
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Create the
OperatorGroup
object by running the following command:oc create -f operatorGroup.yaml
-
-
Create a
Subscription
object:-
Create a YAML file, for example,
subscription.yaml
, that defines the Subscription object:subscription.yamlapiVersion: operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1 kind: Subscription metadata: name: vcp-operator namespace: venafi spec: channel: stable name: vcp-operator source: redhat-operators sourceNamespace: openshift-marketplace installPlanApproval: Manual startingCSV: vcp-operator-image.v1.2.1
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Create the
Subscription
object by running the following command:oc create -f subscription.yaml
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Verifying the installation¶
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Verify that the OLM subscription is created by running the following command:
oc get subscription -n venafi
Sample output:
NAME PACKAGE SOURCE CHANNEL vcp-operator vcp-operator redhat-operators stable
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Verify whether the Venafi Control Plane Operator is successfully installed by running the following command:
oc get csv -n venafi
Sample output:
NAME DISPLAY VERSION REPLACES PHASE vcp-operator.v1.2.1 Venafi Control Plane Operator v1.2.1 1.0.2 Succeeded
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Verify that the status Venafi Control Plane is running by executing the following command:
oc get pods -n venafi
Sample output:
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE vcp-operator-12b7f649c4-dp631 1/1 Running 0 1m1s