OpenShift

Set the Helm chart property kubernetesPlatform to OpenShift

Beginning with operator version 3.3.2, set the operator kubernetesPlatform Helm chart property to OpenShift. This property accommodates OpenShift security requirements. Specifically, the operator’s deployment and any pods created by the operator for WebLogic Server instances will not contain runAsUser: 1000 in the configuration of the securityContext. This is to accommodate OpenShift’s default restricted security context constraint. For more information, see Operator Helm configuration values .

Use a dedicated namespace

When the user that installs an individual instance of the operator does not have the required privileges to create resources at the Kubernetes cluster level, they can use a Dedicated namespace selection strategy for the operator instance to limit it to managing domain resources in its local namespace only (see Operator namespace management ), and they may need to manually install the Domain Custom Resource (CRD) (see Prepare for installation ).

With WIT, set the target parameter to OpenShift

When using the WebLogic Image Tool (WIT), create, rebase, or update command, to create a Domain in Image domain home, Model in Image image, or Model in Image auxiliary image, you can specify the --target parameter for the target Kubernetes environment. Its value can be either Default or OpenShift. The OpenShift option changes the domain directory files such that the group permissions for those files will be the same as the user permissions (group writable, in most cases). If you do not supply the OS group and user setting with --chown, then the Default setting for this option is changed from oracle:oracle to oracle:root to be in line with the expectations of an OpenShift environment.

Security requirements to run WebLogic in OpenShift

WebLogic Kubernetes Operator images starting with version 3.1 and WebLogic Server or Fusion Middleware Infrastructure images obtained from Oracle Container Registry after August 2020 have an oracle user with UID 1000 with the default group set to root.

Here is an excerpt from a standard WebLogic Dockerfile that demonstrates how the file system group ownership is configured in the standard WebLogic Server images:

# Setup filesystem and oracle user
# Adjust file permissions, go to /u01 as user 'oracle' to proceed with WLS installation
# ------------------------------------------------------------
RUN mkdir -p /u01 && \
    chmod 775 /u01 && \
    useradd -b /u01 -d /u01/oracle -m -s /bin/bash oracle && \
    chown oracle:root /u01

COPY --from=builder --chown=oracle:root /u01 /u01

OpenShift, by default, enforces the restricted security context constraint which allocates a high, random UID in the root group for each container. The standard images mentioned previously are designed to work with the restricted security context constraint.

However, if you build your own image, have an older version of an image, or obtain an image from another source, it may not have the necessary permissions. You may need to configure similar file system permissions to allow your image to work in OpenShift. Specifically, you need to make sure the following directories have root as their group, and that the group read, write and execute permissions are set (enabled):

• For the operator, /operator and /logs.
• For WebLogic Server and Fusion Middleware Infrastructure images, /u01 (or the ultimate parent directory of your Oracle Home and domain if you put them in different locations).