Preparing a client to connect to the cluster

You must make sure that the client that you intend to use to connect to the OpenShift cluster has all the necessary tools.

About this task

A Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Service (ROKS) cluster and a private OpenShift cluster have different requirements. Make sure that the client can connect to the cluster you want to use, and download the cert-kubernetes repository.

Procedure

  1. Go to the Container Application Software for Enterprises (CASE) package URL.
  2. Extract the package.
  3. Extract the contents from the .tar file in the ibm-cp-automation/inventory/cp4aOperatorSdk/files/deploy/crs folder. Use the tar command to extract the archives. 
    tar -xvzf ibm-cp-automation-5.1.0.tgz
cd ibm-cp-automation/inventory/cp4aOperatorSdk/files/deploy/crs
tar -xvf cert-k8s-23.0.2.tar

What to do next

Go to and complete the next step in Preparing a namespace for the Cloud Pak operator.