Chapter 2. Virtual database creation

You design and create a virtual database and then deploy it to an OpenShift container. After you create the virtual database, you can make it available to API consumers, which can connect to it as if it were a single relational database.

You can create virtual databases by using a data virtualization operator, by using Fabric8 and Maven Spring Boot, or in Fuse Online.

In this Technology Preview release, the preferred method for deploying virtual databases to OpenShift is to use the data-virtualization operator. The method of using creating and deploying virtual databases with Fabric8 and the Spring Boot Maven plugin is deprecated.

You can create a virtual database in Fuse Online. However, in the current Technology Preview, virtual database created in Fuse Online provide a more limited set of features. Most developers are expected to use the data virtualization operator to deploy virtual databases directly on OpenShift.