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Creating Eventing components in the Administrator perspective

Creating an event source by using the Administrator perspective

If you have cluster administrator permissions, you can create an event source by using the Administrator perspective in the web console.

Prerequisites

  • The OpenShift Serverless Operator and Knative Eventing are installed on your OpenShift Container Platform cluster.

  • You have cluster administrator permissions for OpenShift Container Platform.

Procedure

  1. In the Administrator perspective of the OpenShift Container Platform web console, navigate to Serverless → Eventing.

  2. In the Create list, select Event Source. You will be directed to the Event Sources page.

  3. Select the event source type that you want to create.

See Understanding event sources for more information on which event source types are supported and can be created using by OpenShift Serverless.

Creating a broker by using the Administrator perspective

If you have cluster administrator permissions, you can create a broker by using the Administrator perspective in the web console.

Prerequisites

  • The OpenShift Serverless Operator and Knative Eventing are installed on your OpenShift Container Platform cluster.

  • You have cluster administrator permissions for OpenShift Container Platform.

Procedure

  1. In the Administrator perspective of the OpenShift Container Platform web console, navigate to Serverless → Eventing.

  2. In the Create list, select Broker. You will be directed to the Create Broker page.

  3. Optional: Modify the YAML configuration for the broker.

  4. Click Create.

Creating a trigger by using the Administrator perspective

If you have cluster administrator permissions and have created a broker, you can create a trigger to connect your broker to a subscriber by using the Administrator perspective in the web console.

Prerequisites

  • The OpenShift Serverless Operator and Knative Eventing are installed on your OpenShift Container Platform cluster.

  • You have cluster administrator permissions for OpenShift Container Platform.

  • You have created a broker.

  • You have created a Knative service to use as a subscriber.

Procedure

  1. In the Administrator perspective of the OpenShift Container Platform web console, navigate to Serverless → Eventing.

  2. In the Broker tab, select the Options menu kebab for the broker that you want to add a trigger to.

  3. Click Add Trigger in the list.

  4. In the Add Trigger dialogue box, select a Subscriber for the trigger. The subscriber is the Knative service that will receive events from the broker.

  5. Click Add.

Creating a channel by using the Administrator perspective

If you have cluster administrator permissions, you can create a channel by using the Administrator perspective in the web console.

Prerequisites

  • The OpenShift Serverless Operator and Knative Eventing are installed on your OpenShift Container Platform cluster.

  • You have cluster administrator permissions for OpenShift Container Platform.

Procedure

  1. In the Administrator perspective of the OpenShift Container Platform web console, navigate to Serverless → Eventing.

  2. In the Create list, select Channel. You will be directed to the Channel page.

  3. Select the type of Channel object that you want to create from the Type drop-down.

    Currently only InMemoryChannel channel objects are supported by default. Kafka channels are available if you have installed Knative Kafka on OpenShift Serverless.

  4. Click Create.

Creating a subscription by using the Administrator perspective

If you have cluster administrator permissions and have created a channel, you can create a subscription to connect your broker to a subscriber by using the Administrator perspective in the web console.

Prerequisites

  • The OpenShift Serverless Operator and Knative Eventing are installed on your OpenShift Container Platform cluster.

  • You have cluster administrator permissions for OpenShift Container Platform.

  • You have created a channel.

  • You have created a Knative service to use as a subscriber.

Procedure

  1. In the Administrator perspective of the OpenShift Container Platform web console, navigate to Serverless → Eventing.

  2. In the Channel tab, select the Options menu kebab for the channel that you want to add a subscription to.

  3. Click Add Subscription in the list.

  4. In the Add Subscription dialogue box, select a Subscriber for the subscription. The subscriber is the Knative service that will receive events from the channel.

  5. Click Add.

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