Platform Internals

MAS reverse-engineered from a live install: all 65 container images pulled and flattened, plus the cluster’s operators, CRDs and custom resources harvested as ground truth on OpenShift 4.21.

The suite’s mental model in one page. Cluster topology and the operator APIs. How MAS discovers and installs an application, and how to ship your own alongside Manage. Authentication and the user registry. What each controller actually reconciles and generates. Licensing, AppPoints and the Suite License Service. The two separate administrative REST APIs — including the undocumented DBC generator. How MAXMENU really builds navigation. And the Model Context Protocol server IBM quietly shipped in 9.2.

Written for administrators, architects and business partners who need to know what the product does rather than what the brochure says. Overviews are free; the reference depth is 🔒 members-only. (Roadmap Level 12.)