Integrating HCL Volt MX Foundry with HCL Digital Experience

HCL Volt MX Foundry is a back-end service provider that helps developers build omni-channel digital applications. HCL Volt MX Foundry ensures that developers build mobile applications quickly and obtain secured back-end services instantly. HCL Volt MX Foundry has multiple features, such as - Identity, Integration, Objects, Orchestration, and Engagement Services. These features can be accessed through a common, centralized VoltMXFoundry Console. For more information, see the HCL Volt MX documentation.

The HCL Digital Experience (DX) Cloud Native offering includes the HCL Volt Foundry files, HCL Volt Foundry Container installer (Kubernetes cluster), and HCL Volt Foundry Container deployment tool that should be used to deploy HCL Volt Foundry for use with DX on supported K8s platforms. Platform-specific HCL Volt Foundry deployment files are not provided. To deploy HCL Volt Foundry with HCL DX Cloud Native 9.5.x deployments on supported Kubernetes platforms, the latest versions of the following HCL Volt Foundry files are provided in your HCL Software download portal entitlements for Cloud Native 9.5.x Tier 1-7 offerings:

• HelmChart-9.5.15.8_GA.zip
• VoltFoundtryContainersOnPrem-9.5.15.8_GA.zip
• mfcli_9.5.3.4_GA.jar

Note

This guide only applies to HCL Digital Experience 9.5 Container Deployments in combination with HCL Volt MX Foundry Helm installations. The currently supported version combination is:

• HCL Digital Experience CF213 and later versions
• HCL Volt MX Foundry 9.5.3.0

Note that the specified HCL Volt MX Foundry version is the tested version. Using later versions will most probably work but it is not guaranteed.

Follow the installation and configuration steps to integrate HCL Digital Experience to work with HCL Volt MX Foundry.

• Installing HCL Volt MX Foundry to Kubernetes with Helm
  This topic explains how to deploy HCL Volt MX Foundry to an existing Kubernetes cluster using Helm.
• HCL Volt MX Foundry configuration for the integration with HCL Digital Experience
  This section introduces the essential steps for configuring the Access Layer and Single Sign-On (SSO) when integrating HCL DX and HCL Volt MX.
• Test the integration using example integrations
  This section provides an overview of the possibilities offered by the integration of HCL Volt MX Foundry and HCL DX.
• Considerations and limitations
  This topic discusses things to consider when integrating HCL Volt MX Foundry with HCL DX.

HCLSoftware U learning materials

For an introduction and a demo on how to integrate DX with HCL Volt MX as a business user, go to DX Integration with HCL Volt MX for Business Users. To try it out yourself, refer to DX Integration with HCL Volt MX for Business Users Lab.

For an introduction and a demo on how to integrate DX with HCL Volt MX as a developer, go to DX Integration with HCL Volt MX for Developers. To try it out yourself, refer to DX Integration with HCL Volt MX for Developers Lab.

You can also use the dedicated course HCL Volt MX Integration with HCL DX. This course explains the benefits of integrating HCL Volt MX with HCL DX and provides integration guidance for business users, developers, and administrators.