Adding nodes to your Cloud Pak for Data cluster

Important: IBM Cloud Pak® for Data Version 4.7 will reach end of support (EOS) on 31 July, 2025. For more information, see the Discontinuance of service announcement for IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.X.

Upgrade to IBM Software Hub Version 5.1 before IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.7 reaches end of support. For more information, see Upgrading IBM Software Hub in the IBM Software Hub Version 5.1 documentation.

You can add nodes to scale out an existing Cloud Pak for Data cluster on Red Hat® OpenShift®.

Before you begin

Ensure that any node that you plan to add meets the System requirements for IBM Cloud Pak for Data for compute nodes.

Procedure

To add a node to your Cloud Pak for Data cluster, follow the appropriate steps for your environment:

Environment	Instructions
On premises	For instructions on adding a node to an on-premises OpenShift cluster, see Adding RHEL compute machines to an OpenShift Container Platform cluster in the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform documentation: Version 4.10 Version 4.12
IBM Cloud Pak for Data System	See Adding new nodes to the system in the IBM Cloud Pak for Data System documentation.
IBM® Cloud	See Adding worker nodes and zones to clusters in the Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud documentation.
Amazon Web Services	The options depend on how you installed Cloud Pak for Data: AWS Quick Start You cannot scale your cluster. Terraform See Auto Scaling in the Terraform installation instructions
Microsoft Azure	The options depend on how you installed Cloud Pak for Data: Microsoft Azure Quick Start You cannot scale your cluster. Terraform See Auto Scaling in the Terraform installation instructions
Google Cloud	See Scaling a MachineSet manually in the Red Hat OpenShift documentation.