diff --git a/modules/ROOT/pages/kubernetes/openshift.adoc b/modules/ROOT/pages/kubernetes/openshift.adoc index c4ec84711..83e31f36b 100644 --- a/modules/ROOT/pages/kubernetes/openshift.adoc +++ b/modules/ROOT/pages/kubernetes/openshift.adoc @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ SDP operators are certified for the OpenShift platform and can be installed from IMPORTANT: OpenShift installations with FIPS mode enabled are not supported. This is because neither the SDP operators, nor the supported Apache products are FIPS-compliant. +IMPORTANT: The operators deployed with OLM might have higher memory requests (and limits) compared to our Helm charts, as we have seen typical production OpenShift clusters being larger than typical non-Openshift clusters. +The reason is that memory usage of some of our operators scales with the number of objects in your Kubernetes cluster. +However, you can fine-tune the operator memory requirements using a custom Subscription object as described below, so this note is only about the default resources! + == Customizing operator installations As described in the https://github.com/operator-framework/operator-lifecycle-manager/blob/master/doc/design/subscription-config.md[Openshift Subscription documentation{external-link-icon}^] you can configure the deployed operators. @@ -53,7 +57,12 @@ spec: value: kafka-namespace ---- -IMPORTANT: The described configuration mechanism currently does not work for secret and listener-operator due to restrictions on deploying DaemonSets. +=== secret and listener-operator + +The secret and listener operator are not deployed by OLM directly but rather by a helper tool called `olm-deployer`. This tool is needed to work around some OLM limitations that prevent it from directly installing these operators. +In this case, `olm-deployer` takes **it's own** resource requests and applies them to all containers on the `DaemonSets` of these operators.. + +This allows you to customize the resources of the DaemonSet in the same way as for the other operators - but doesn't allow individual resources for each container. == Security context constraints