What's deprecated and changed for IBM Cloud Pak foundational services

Get a quick overview of what is changed, deprecated, or removed in foundational services version 4.0.x.

Deprecated services and features

The following services are removed from foundational services version 4.0.x onwards:

• Management ingress (ibm-management-ingress-operator)
• Nginx ingress (ibm-ingress-nginx-operator)
• Audit logging (ibm-auditlogging-operator)
• Serviceability (MustGather tool that was deployed as a part of the ibm-healthcheck-operator)
• Crossplane (ibm-crossplane-operator, ibm-crossplane-provider-kubernetes-operator, ibm-crossplane-provider-ibm-cloud-operator)
• SecretShare (The SecretShare operator that was used to provide compatibility with earlier versions of foundational services)
• Identity management UI
• Webhook (ibm-common-service-webhook)
• Cloudctl (ibm-platform-api)
• Monitoring dashboards (Existing adopters must move to IBM Instana or community Grafana operator)
• System Healthcheck service (ibm-healthcheck-operator)
• Red Hat Marketplace operator (redhat-marketplace-operator)
• User Data Services is deprecated and not supported for foundational services.

Changed services

License Service Reporter is migrated to a new catalog to support multi-instance Cloud Paks. Therefore, License Service Reporter is not available for foundational services version 4.0 release.

You can use the License Service Reporter for the following versions:

• For foundational services version 4.2, see License Service Reporter

• For foundational services version 3.23, see Tracking license usage in a multicluster environment