MQ on OpenShift

SPM does not require or support the use of any IBM MQ Advanced features available in the IBM MQ certified containers.

IBM MQ certified container is supported only from SPM Version 7.0.11 and later versions.

MQ can also be deployed via Operators. Operators are a method of packaging and deploying Kubernetes applications that take human operational knowledge of managing the application and encode it into the package itself, which can then be shared with users. Operator deployment can be used to create a single-instance or a multi-instance deployment, as desired.

The IBM MQ Operator can be installed using the Operator Hub. More information on installing the IBM Operator using the OpenShift CLI can be found here. When deploying in this way, a Queue Manager object is created.

MQ Operators used in SPM requires the values for availabilityType, storageType, and storageClassName to be configured prior to deployment. These values are those located under the MQ global.mq section within the relevant values file.

IBM MQ provides guidance on the functional capabilities for a file system and the testing a user should complete in their own environment.

For more information, please see the following documentation on IBM MQ multi-instance queue manager file systems, IBM MQ considerations for EFS on AWS and Red Hat OpenShift support for AWS EFS.