4 Install on a Kubernetes Cluster

Install Transaction Manager for Microservices (MicroTx) on a Kubernetes cluster.

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

Topics

  • Push Images to a Remote Docker Repository
    The installation bundle that you have downloaded to your local system contains Docker images of MicroTx Workflows, MicroTx Distributed Transactions coordinator, and 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 charts 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 Server Health
    After installing MicroTx, validate that the installation was completed successfully.
  • Find IP Address of Istio Ingress Gateway
    Before you start a transaction, you must note down the external IP address of the Istio ingress gateway.