Using the Red Hat Marketplace

Cluster administrators can use to manage software on OKD, give developers self-service access to deploy application instances, and correlate application usage against a quota.

Cluster administrators can install a common set of applications on OKD clusters that connect to the Marketplace. They can also use the Marketplace to track cluster usage against subscriptions or quotas. Users that they add by using the Marketplace have their product usage tracked and billed to their organization.

During the , a Marketplace Operator is installed that updates the image registry secret, manages the catalog, and reports application usage.

You can access installed applications from the web console by clicking Operators > Installed Operators.

You can deploy Marketplace applications from the web console’s Administrator and Developer perspectives.

The Developer perspective

Developers can access newly installed capabilities by using the Developer perspective.

This perspective does not include Operator installation and application usage tracking.

The Administrator perspective

Cluster administrators can access Operator installation and application usage information from the Administrator perspective.

They can also launch application instances by browsing custom resource definitions (CRDs) in the Installed Operators list.