4 Install on a Kubernetes Cluster

You can install Transaction Manager for Microservices (MicroTx) on Docker or on a Kubernetes cluster.

If you want to install MicroTx on a Kubernetes cluster, skip this section and see Install on Docker Swarm.

Before you begin, ensure that you have completed the prerequisites. See Prepare.

Perform the following steps to install MicroTx:

1. Push Images to a Remote Docker Repository
2. Configure the values.yaml File
3. Install MicroTx

• Push Images to a Remote Docker Repository
  The installation bundle that you have downloaded to your local system contains a Docker image of MicroTx and the MicroTx console.
• Configure the values.yaml File
  The installation bundle contains values.yaml file, the manifest file of the application, which contains the deployment configuration details for MicroTx.
• Install MicroTx
  Use Helm to install MicroTx on a Kubernetes cluster.
• Access MicroTx
  To access MicroTx, specify the port number, host name, and protocol that you want to use to access. Oracle recommends that you use HTTP protocol only in test or development environments. In production environments, you must use HTTPS protocol.
• Check the Coordinator Health
  After installing MicroTx, run the following command to check the health of the coordinator and to validate that the installation was completed successfully.