WSO2 products and Carbon version compatibility

Question

I want to include multiple WSO2 products in 1 Carbon Management console. I started with Carbon 4.1.0. However, when installing features, not all products are listed (e.g. BRS, Identity Server etc). I understand that these will added in the future (?).

You can add additional repositories in the console, pointing to other versions of Carbon.

Now my questions are: Will this result in a stable environment (multiple carbon versions) and products that can work together? Is this the way to go (having 1 management console for multiple products)? Are 4.x carbon based products compatible with 3.x carbon based products? Is there an overview of WSO2 product versions and what Carbon version contains the features?

Answer 1

1) It is not recommended to install multiple features without careful analysis of them. Actually products are carefully analysed and proven features that are grouped together to solve common problems. As an example if you combine AS + ESB features yes you can have it but it may result in poor performance in ESB since your services are hosted in the same server too. (Likewise there are many negatives). Further some of the combinations are not properly tested in an production environment and will have some unidentified issues, But released products are tested properly and used in production too.

2) Not compatible. You cannot install 3.x features in 4.x.

3) You may refer this for product overviews http://wso2.com/products/carbon/release-matrix/

Answer 2

About your initial question, under carbon 4.1.0 still only AS(5.1.0) is released. Rest will be released later on (sometimes may be with carbon 4.1.x or 4.2.x).