Prerequisites for installing the server software on Red Hat OpenShift

You must complete certain tasks before you install HCL OneTest™ Server on the Red Hat OpenShift platform.

The following sections describe each prerequisite in detail:

Internet access

You must have access to the internet to install HCL OneTest™ Server.

Red Hat OpenShift platform

You must set up the Red Hat OpenShift platform, and then install the following components in your IT infrastructure:

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP). For more information, refer to the Installing section in the Red Hat OpenShift documentation.

  • Dynamic Volume Provisioning that supports ReadWriteOnce (RWO) and ReadWriteMany (RWX) access modes. For more information, refer to the Dynamic provisioning section in the Red Hat OpenShift documentation.

  • Optional: Jaeger operator to trace test logs and Jaeger-based reports when you run tests. For more information, refer to Installing the Operators.

  • Optional: Red Hat Service Mesh 2.0, if service virtualization through Istio, a Tech Preview feature is required. For more information, refer to the Installing Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh section in the Red Hat OpenShift documentation.

    For more information about the service virtualization feature, see Management of virtualized services.

  • Optional: You can configure the OpenShift software-defined networking (SDN) to provide a unified cluster network that enables the communication between pods across the OpenShift Container Platform cluster. The default installation process includes the NetworkPolicy resources and these resources are acted upon only if you configure the SDN appropriately. For more information, refer to the OpenShift SDN default CNI network provider section in the RedHat OpenShift documentation.

You must have access to the OpenShift cluster with cluster administrator privileges. One of the ways to get access to the OpenShift cluster is to run the following command on the OpenShift command-line interface:
oc login -u kubeadmin -p {password} https://api.{openshift-cluster-dns-name}:6443
Note: For more information about specific versions of software requirements, see System Requirements.

Mandatory software

You must install the following software on Red Hat OpenShift:

  • Helm. For more information, refer to the Installing a Helm chart on an OpenShift Container Platform cluster section in the Red Hat OpenShift documentation.

  • OpenShift CLI. For more information, refer to the Getting started with the CLI section in the Red Hat OpenShift documentation.

Service virtualization through Istio

Disclaimer: This release contains access to the Istio virtualized services feature in HCL OneTest™ Server as a Tech Preview. The Tech Preview is intended for you to view the capabilities of virtualized services offered by HCL OneTest™ Server, and to provide your feedback to the product team. You are permitted to use the information only for evaluation purposes and not for use in a production environment. HCL provides the information without obligation of support and "as is" without warranty of any kind.
To provide your feedback, you must perform the following tasks:

  1. Sign up or Log in to the Ideas portal.

  2. Click Add a new idea to provide your feedback on the Tech Preview features.

  3. Select OneTest TechPreview Programs in the Choose a workspace for this idea field.

  4. Provide all the necessary details, and then click Share Idea.

The default configuration does not enable service virtualization through Istio. To use the service virtualization feature through Istio, you must configure it appropriately. As a Tech Preview feature, you can virtualize the bookinfo sample application.

You must install the bookinfo application in the Bookinfo namespace because HCL OneTest™ Server supports service virtualization through Istio only for the bookinfo sample application.

For more information about the bookinfo application, refer to the Istio documentation.

Service virtualization usage metrics

You must perform the following tasks so that HCL OneTest™ Server shows the correct usage of service virtualization metrics:

  • Create the cluster-monitoring-config ConfigMap object to configure the OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) monitoring stack, if the ConfigMap does not exist.

    For more information about creating a cluster monitoring config map, based on the version of OCP that you use, refer to Creating a cluster monitoring config map.

  • Enable the user workload monitoring services in the OpenShift cluster to show the service virtualization usage metrics in HCL OneTest™ Server.

    For more information about the enabling monitoring of your services, based on the version of OCP that you use, refer to Enabling monitoring of your services