Installing and upgrading

HCL™ Accelerate consists of services and other tools that are stored in Docker containers. A Docker container is a single unit that contains a software application, often called a service, and the environment needed to run it. Containers can be created and destroyed as needed.

HCL™ Accelerate consists or over 10 containers. Because of the number of containers, another application, called a container orchestrator, is used to manage the containers. Docker Compose is recommended for proof of concept environments such as trials and tests. For production environments, Kubernetes or another Kubernetes-based orchestrator, such as OpenShift, is only supported platform.

For Docker Compose installations, resources are defined in a file named docker-compose.yml that is found in the installation folder. For Kubernetes and Openshift installations, the resources are combined into a single file called a Helm chart. You can change a resource by modifying the affected template file or the corresponding resource in the Helm chart.