The red Hat Marketplace is an open cloud marketplace that makes it easy to discover and access certified software for container-based environments that run on public clouds and on-premise.
Cluster administrators can use the red Hat Marketplace to manage software on OKD, give developers self-service access to deploy application instances, and correlate application usage against a quota.
Cluster administrators can install a common set of applications on OKD clusters that connect to the Marketplace. They can also use the Marketplace to track cluster usage against subscriptions or quotas. Users that they add by using the Marketplace have their product usage tracked and billed to their organization.
During the cluster connection process, a Marketplace Operator is installed that updates the image registry secret, manages the catalog, and reports application usage.
Cluster administrators can install Marketplace applications from within OperatorHub in OKD, or from the Marketplace web application.
You can access installed applications from the web console by clicking Operators > Installed Operators.
Developers can access newly installed capabilities and deploy Marketplace applications from the web console.
For example, after a database Operator is installed, a developer can create an instance from the catalog within their project. Database usage is aggregated and reported to the cluster administrator.
Cluster administrators can access Operator installation and application usage information. They can also launch application instances by browsing custom resource definitions (CRDs) in the Installed Operators list.
Starting with OKD 4.19, the perspectives in the web console have unified. The Developer perspective is no longer enabled by default. All users can interact with all OKD web console features. However, if you are not the cluster owner, you might need to request permission to certain features from the cluster owner. You can still enable the Developer perspective. On the Getting Started pane in the web console, you can take a tour of the console, find information on setting up your cluster, view a quick start for enabling the Developer perspective, and follow links to explore new features and capabilities. |