Prepare your cluster

Cluster Preparation

Before you start you have to install a number of operators you’ll use during the workshop. These two are Red Hat Integration - Camel K for providing Camel services in your cluster and Red Hat OpenShift Serverless to make our application truly serverless and scalable. But fear not, both are managed by Kubernetes operators on OpenShift.

Install and prepare Camel K Operator

• In the Web Console, go to Operators > OperatorHub and search for Red Hat Integration - Camel K (You may need to disable search filters)

• Install the Red Hat Integration - Camel K Operator with default settings

Install and prepare OpenShift Serverless operator

• In the Web Console, go to Operators > OperatorHub and search for Red Hat OpenShift Serverless (You may need to disable search filters)

• Install the Red Hat OpenShift Serverless Operator with default settings

Login to OpenShift from your local machine

• If you don’t already have the oc client installed, you can download the matching version for your operating system here
• Log into your OpenShift Webconsole with you cluster admin credentials
• In the top right corner, click on your username and then Copy login command to copy your login token

• On your local machine either:
  • open a terminal and log in with the oc command you copied OR
  • use the integrated terminal in VSCode to log in with the oc command you copied

Your cluster is now prepared for the next step, proceed to the Task 1 - Hello World.