Software requirements

Before you install IBM Cloud Pak for Data, review the software requirements for the control plane, the shared cluster components, and the services that you plan to install, and review the supported web browsers.

Cloud Pak for Data platform software requirements

You must have the following software to install Cloud Pak for Data:

Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform

For entitlement information see Licenses and entitlements.

Cloud Pak for Data supports the following versions of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. (Cloud Pak for Data supports the same operating system requirements as Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.)

Important: Cloud Pak for Data supports only the specified releases of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

Different versions of Cloud Pak for Data support different versions of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

Version Supported on Learn more Cluster sizing guidance
Version 4.12.0 or later fixes
  • 5.0.0
  • 5.0.1
  • 5.0.2
  • 5.0.3
 For details, see the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform documentation:
Restriction: Data Virtualization and Db2 Big SQL are not supported on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Version 4.12. If you plan to install either of these services, you must install Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Version 4.14 or later.
 Refer to the Cloud Pak for Data platform hardware requirements as you configure your cluster.
Version 4.14.0 or later fixes
  • 5.0.0
  • 5.0.1
  • 5.0.2
  • 5.0.3
 For details, see the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform documentation: Refer to the Cloud Pak for Data platform hardware requirements as you configure your cluster.
Version 4.15.0 or later fixes
  • 5.0.0
  • 5.0.1
  • 5.0.2
  • 5.0.3
 For details, see the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform documentation: Refer to the Cloud Pak for Data platform hardware requirements as you configure your cluster.
Version 4.16.4 or later fixes
  • 5.0.3
 For details, see the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform documentation: Refer to the Cloud Pak for Data platform hardware requirements as you configure your cluster.
Restriction: Do not install the KubeVirt HyperConverged Cluster Operator from the Community Operator catalog source on the cluster.
Kubernetes Metrics Server
If you do not enable the default monitoring stack on your Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster and you want to gather use metrics for your pods and nodes, install Kubernetes Metrics Server.
Important: If you do not enable the default monitoring stack or install Kubernetes Metrics Server, the platform monitoring features in Cloud Pak for Data will not work.

Supported networking protocols

IBM Cloud Pak for Data can run on the following networking protocols:
  • IPv4 single-stack network
  • IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack network
For more information, see Converting to IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack networking in the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform documentation:

Shared cluster component software requirements

There are no additional software requirements for:
  • Scheduling service
  • Common core services

Service software requirements

Use this table to determine whether the service that you want to install depends on other software being available:
  • Some services require other software to be installed outside of Cloud Pak for Data (marked as external dependencies)
  • Some services require other Cloud Pak for Data services to be installed as prerequisites or to support specific functionality (marked as service dependencies)
  • Some services require other underlying components, which the service installs if needed (marked as component dependencies)
Service External dependencies Service dependencies Component dependencies
AI Factsheets None
The service does not have any service dependencies.
To implement a complete AI governance solution, you must install the following services:
  • OpenPages
  • IBM Knowledge Catalog
  • Watson OpenScale
  • Watson Machine Learning
  • Watson Studio

If you install AI Factsheets with only Watson Studio, you can create AI use cases in only one catalog.
The service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Common core services (ccs)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
Anaconda Repository for IBM Cloud Pak for Data For details, see the Anaconda installation requirements.
None
None
Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark None
None
None
Cognos Analytics To use Cognos Analytics, you must have:
None
The service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Common core services (ccs)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
Cognos Dashboards None
None
The service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Common core services (ccs)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
  • Redis (ibm_redis_cp)
Data Gate To use this service, you must have:
  • IBM® z/OS V2.4 (5650-ZOS) or later.
  • Db2 for z/OS, either:
    • V12 (5650-DB2 or 5770-AF3) with APAR fixes installed and running at Function Level 505 or higher. You find the list of required APAR fixes here: Software dependencies.
    • V13 (5698-DB2 or 5698-DBV)
  • Distributed data facility (DDF) with a secure port, configured for network encryption through AT-TLS. For details, see Configuring network access between Data Gate and IBM Z.
To use this service, you must have at least one instance of a supported, integrated database:
  • Db2
  • Db2 Warehouse
The following services are not required but provide additional functionality:
  • IBM Knowledge Catalog enables you to automatically publish metadata about Data Gate tables to catalogs.
None
Data Privacy None
To install this service, you must have the following services already installed:
  • Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark
  • IBM Knowledge Catalog or IBM Knowledge Catalog Premium
None
Data Product Hub None
The service automatically installs the following services if they are not already installed:
  • Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark
  • Data Refinery
The service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Common core services (ccs)
  • Db2 as a service (db2aaservice)
  • Db2U (db2u)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
Data Refinery None
None
None
Data Replication None
None
The service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Common core services (ccs)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
DataStage None
The following services are not required but provide additional functionality:
  • Orchestration Pipelines enables you to convert DataStage sequence jobs to pipelines.
The service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Common core services (ccs)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
Data Virtualization None
The service automatically installs the following services if they are not already installed:
  • Db2 Data Management Console
The service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Common core services (ccs)
  • Db2U (db2u)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
  • Redis (ibm_redis_cp)
Db2 None
The following services are not required but provide additional functionality:
  • Db2 Data Management Console provides:
    • A graphical user interface for SQL execution
    • A runtime monitoring interface
This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Db2U (db2u)
Db2 Big SQL To use Db2 Big SQL, you must have remote data storage, such as:
  • A Hadoop cluster on Cloudera Data Platform Version 7.1.9
  • Object storage
    Db2 Big SQL supports:
    • IBM Cloud Object Storage
    • Amazon Web Services object storage
    • IBM Storage Scale object storage
    • Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation
The following services are not required but provide additional functionality:
  • Db2 Data Management Console provides:
    • A graphical user interface for SQL execution
    • A runtime monitoring interface
This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Db2U (db2u)
Db2 Data Management Console None
None
This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Redis (ibm_redis_cp)
Db2 Warehouse None
The following services are not required but provide additional functionality:
  • Db2 Data Management Console provides:
    • A graphical user interface for SQL execution
    • A runtime monitoring interface
This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Db2U (db2u)
Decision Optimization None
To install this service, you must have the following services already installed:
  • Watson Studio
  • Watson Machine Learning
None
EDB Postgres None
None
This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Cloud Native PostgreSQL (postgresql)
Execution Engine for Apache Hadoop To use this service, you must have an Execution Engine for Apache Hadoop RPM installation on a Hadoop cluster.

The Hadoop cluster must be in the same network as your IBM Cloud Pak for Data deployment.
To install this service, you must have the following services already installed:
  • Watson Studio
None
IBM Knowledge Catalog None
The service automatically installs the following services if they are not already installed:
  • Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark
  • Data Refinery
If you choose to install the data quality feature, the service automatically installs the following services if they are not already installed:
  • DataStage Enterprise
The following services are not required but provide additional functionality:
  • Data Privacy
  • MANTA Automated Data Lineage
The service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Common core services
  • Db2 as a service (db2aaservice)
  • Db2U (db2u)
If you choose to install the business-term relationship search, data lineage, and relationship explorer features, the service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • FoundationDB (opencontent_fdb)
IBM Knowledge Catalog Premium

5.0.05.0.1 In Versions 5.0.0 and 5.0.1, you must install the following operators to install this service:

  • Node Feature Discovery Operator

    Install the stable version of the operator.

  • NVIDIA GPU Operator

    Install the generally available version of the operator. For more information, see NVIDIA GPU Operator Life Cycle in the NVIDIA GPU Operator documentation.

  • Red Hat OpenShift AI Operator
    The version that you install depends on the version of IBM Cloud Pak for Data that you plan to install.
    • 5.0.0 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.1 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.2 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.3 requires Version 2.11.x

5.0.2 or later Starting in Version 5.0.2, the preceding operators are required only if you enable semantic enrichment features.

For more information on installing these operators, see Installing operators for services that require GPUs.
The service automatically installs the following services if they are not already installed:
  • Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark
  • Data Refinery
If you choose to install the data quality feature, the service automatically installs the following services if they are not already installed:
  • DataStage Enterprise
The following services are not required but provide additional functionality:
  • Data Privacy
  • MANTA Automated Data Lineage
The service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Common core services
  • Db2 as a service (db2aaservice)
  • Db2U (db2u)
  • FoundationDB (fdb_k8s and opencontent_fdb)

    This dependency is installed only if you enable the business-term relationship search, data lineage, and relationship explorer features.

  • Inference foundation models (watsonx_ai_ifm)
    • 5.0.0 5.0.1 In Versions 5.0.0 and 5.0.1, this dependency is automatically installed.
    • 5.0.2 or later Starting in Version 5.0.2, this dependency is installed only if you enable the semantic enrichment features.
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
IBM Knowledge Catalog Standard

5.0.05.0.1 In Versions 5.0.0 and 5.0.1, you must install the following operators to install this service:

  • Node Feature Discovery Operator

    Install the stable version of the operator.

  • NVIDIA GPU Operator

    Install the generally available version of the operator. For more information, see NVIDIA GPU Operator Life Cycle in the NVIDIA GPU Operator documentation.

  • Red Hat OpenShift AI Operator
    The version that you install depends on the version of IBM Cloud Pak for Data that you plan to install.
    • 5.0.0 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.1 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.2 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.3 requires Version 2.11.x

5.0.2 or later Starting in Version 5.0.2, the preceding operators are required only if you enable semantic enrichment features.

For more information on installing these operators, see Installing operators for services that require GPUs.
The service automatically installs the following services if they are not already installed:
  • Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark
The following services are not required but provide additional functionality:
  • MANTA Automated Data Lineage
    • 5.0.0 5.0.1 When you install this service, you have access to additional data sources.
    • 5.0.2 or later When you install this service, you have access to additional data sources and you can access MANTA Automated Data Lineage interface from the knowledge graph interface.
This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Common core services (ccs)
  • Db2 as a service (db2aaservice)
  • Db2U (db2u)
  • 5.0.2 or later FoundationDB (fdb_k8s and opencontent_fdb)

    This dependency is installed only if you enable the business-term relationship search, data lineage, and relationship explorer features.

  • Inference foundation models (watsonx_ai_ifm)
    • 5.0.0 5.0.1 In Versions 5.0.0 and 5.0.1, this dependency is automatically installed.
    • 5.0.2 or later Starting in Version 5.0.2, this dependency is installed only if you enable the semantic enrichment features.
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
IBM Match 360 with Watson None
The following service is not required but provides additional functionality:
  • IBM Knowledge Catalog enables key IBM Match 360 capabilities such as profiling, automapping, data quality workflows, and data governance.
This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Common core services (ccs)
  • FoundationDB (fdb_k8s and opencontent_fdb)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
  • RabbitMQ (opencontent_rabbitmq)
  • Redis (opencontent_redis)
Informix None
None
This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • informix
MANTA Automated Data Lineage None
To install this service, you must have one of the following services already installed:
  • IBM Knowledge Catalog
  • IBM Knowledge Catalog Premium
  • IBM Knowledge Catalog Standard
None
MongoDB None
None
You must install the following dependencies when you install the service:
  • mongodb
OpenPages If you prefer to connect to an external database rather than having OpenPages automatically provision a Db2 database for you, you must have one of the following databases:
  • IBM Db2 on Linux
  • Oracle
The following services are not required but provide additional functionality:
  • AI Factsheets enables you to review machine learning models and related activities as part of enterprise risk and compliance monitoring.
  • Cognos Analytics
  • watsonx Assistant
  • Watson Discovery
  • IBM Knowledge Catalog
  • Watson OpenScale
This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Db2 as a service (db2aaservice)
  • Db2U (db2u)
  • RabbitMQ (opencontent_rabbitmq)
Orchestration Pipelines None
The following services are not required but provide additional nodes when they are installed:
  • DataStage
  • Watson Machine Learning
The service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Common core services (ccs)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
Planning Analytics If you want to use Microsoft Excel, you must have the Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel plug-in.
None
None
Product Master If you want to connect to a database outside of Cloud Pak for Data, it must be an IBM Db2 or Oracle database.
If you want to connect to an integrated database, you must have the following service already installed:
  • Db2
None
RStudio® Server Runtimes None
To install this service, you must have the following service already installed:
  • Watson Studio
None
SPSS Modeler None
To install this service, you must have the following services already installed:
  • Watson Studio
This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Canvas (canvasbase)
Synthetic Data Generator None
To install this service, you must have the following services already installed:
  • watsonx.ai
 This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Canvas (canvasbase)
  • Common core services (ccs)
Voice Gateway None
To install this service, you must have the following service already installed:
  • watsonx Assistant
  • Watson Speech to Text
  • Watson Text to Speech
None
Watson Discovery To install this service, you must have Multicloud Object Gateway. For more information, see Installing and setting up Multicloud Object Gateway
None
This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Cloud Native PostgreSQL (postgresql)
  • etcd (opencontent_etcd)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
  • MinIO (opencontent_minio)
  • RabbitMQ (opencontent_rabbitmq)
  • Watson Gateway (watson_gateway)
Watson Machine Learning None
The following services are not required but provide additional functionality:
  • Watson Machine Learning Accelerator provides the Experiment Builder user interface.
The service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Common core services (ccs)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
Watson Machine Learning Accelerator
To install this service, you must install the following operators:
  • Node Feature Discovery Operator

    Install the stable version of the operator.

  • NVIDIA GPU Operator

    Install the generally available version of the operator. For more information, see NVIDIA GPU Operator Life Cycle in the NVIDIA GPU Operator documentation.
To install this service, you must have the following service already installed:
  • Scheduling service
The following services are not required but provide additional functionality:
  • Watson Machine Learning enables you to use Deep Learning Experiments
None
Watson OpenScale If you prefer to connect to an external database, you must have Db2 Enterprise Server Edition 11.5 or later.
If you want to connect to an integrated database, you must have at least one instance of a supported, integrated database:
  • Db2
  • Db2 Warehouse
  • EDB Postgres

The following services are not required but provide additional functionality. To use the functionality, you must install the services before you install Watson OpenScale:

  • Watson Studio enables you to:
    • Create AutoAI models and Jupyter Notebooks
    • Set up a demo environment where you can quickly tour the Watson OpenScale capabilities
  • Watson Machine Learning enables you to:
    • Create a deployed model that Watson OpenScale can check for bias and drift
    • Automatically log payloads
None
Watson Speech services To install this service, you must have Multicloud Object Gateway. For more information, see Installing and setting up Multicloud Object Gateway
None
This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Cloud Native PostgreSQL (postgresql)
  • 5.0.0 MinIO (opencontent_minio)

    5.0.1 or later MinIO is no longer a dependency.

  • RabbitMQ (opencontent_rabbitmq)
  • Watson Gateway (watson_gateway)
Watson Studio None
The service automatically installs the following services if they are not already installed:
  • Data Refinery
  • Watson Studio Runtimes
This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Common core services (ccs)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
Watson Studio Runtimes The following information applies to GPU runtimes only.

To install this service, you must install the following operators:

  • Node Feature Discovery Operator

    Install the stable version of the operator.

  • NVIDIA GPU Operator
    The version that you install depends on the version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform that you are running:
    • On OpenShift 4.12, use v23.9.x or v24.3.x
    • On OpenShift 4.14, use v23.9.x or v24.3.x
    • On OpenShift 4.15, use v24.3.x

For more information on installing these operators, see Installing operators for services that require GPUs.
To install this service, you must have the following service already installed:
  • Watson Studio
None
watsonx.ai
To install this service, you must install the following operators:
  • Node Feature Discovery Operator

    Install the stable version of the operator.

  • NVIDIA GPU Operator

    Install the generally available version of the operator. For more information, see NVIDIA GPU Operator Life Cycle in the NVIDIA GPU Operator documentation.

  • Red Hat OpenShift AI Operator
    The version that you install depends on the version of IBM Cloud Pak for Data that you plan to install.
    • 5.0.0 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.1 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.2 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.3 requires Version 2.11.x

For more information on installing these operators, see Installing operators for services that require GPUs.

If you install the full watsonx.ai service, the service automatically installs the following services if they are not already installed:

  • Watson Studio
  • Watson Machine Learning

The following services are not required but provide additional functionality to watsonx.ai:

  • watsonx.governance enables you to govern your generative AI assets.

If you install the watsonx.ai lightweight engine, the service does not install any other services.

 If you install the full watsonx.ai service, the service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Common core services (ccs)
  • Inference foundation models (watsonx_ai_ifm)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
If you install the watsonx.ai lightweight engine, the service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Inference foundation models (watsonx_ai_ifm)
watsonx Assistant

To install this service, you must install the following software on the cluster:

If you plan to use conversational skills or conversational search features, you must install the following operators:

  • Node Feature Discovery Operator

    Install the stable version of the operator.

  • NVIDIA GPU Operator

    Install the generally available version of the operator. For more information, see NVIDIA GPU Operator Life Cycle in the NVIDIA GPU Operator documentation.

  • Red Hat OpenShift AI Operator
    The version that you install depends on the version of IBM Cloud Pak for Data that you plan to install.
    • 5.0.0 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.1 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.2 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.3 requires Version 2.11.x

For more information on installing these operators, see Installing operators for services that require GPUs.

If you plan to use conversational search, you must install Watson Discovery or Elasticsearch.

If you don't plan to use conversational search, the following services are not required but provide additional functionality:

  • Watson Discovery enables you to add a search skill to your assistant.

This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:

  • Cloud Native PostgreSQL (postgresql)
  • etcd (opencontent_etcd)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
  • 5.0.0 MinIO (opencontent_minio)

    5.0.1 or later MinIO is no longer a dependency.

  • Redis (ibm_redis_cp)
  • Watson data governor (data_governor)
  • Watson Gateway (watson_gateway)

If you enable the GPU features (conversational skills and conversational search), the service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:

  • Common core services (ccs)
  • Inference foundation models (watsonx_ai_ifm)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible® Lightspeed
To install this service, you must install the following operators:
  • Node Feature Discovery Operator

    Install the stable version of the operator.

  • NVIDIA GPU Operator

    Install the generally available version of the operator. For more information, see NVIDIA GPU Operator Life Cycle in the NVIDIA GPU Operator documentation.

  • Red Hat OpenShift AI Operator
    The version that you install depends on the version of IBM Cloud Pak for Data that you plan to install.
    • 5.0.0 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.1 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.2 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.3 requires Version 2.11.x

For more information on installing these operators, see Installing operators for services that require GPUs.

In addition, you must have a Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed subscription. For more information, see Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant.
The service automatically installs the following services if they are not already installed:
  • watsonx.ai
This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Common core services (ccs)
  • Inference foundation models (watsonx_ai_ifm)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
  • 5.0.3 or later watsonx Code Assistant Base (wca_base)
watsonx Code Assistant for Z
To install this service, you must install the following operators:
  • Node Feature Discovery Operator

    Install the stable version of the operator.

  • NVIDIA GPU Operator

    Install the generally available version of the operator. For more information, see NVIDIA GPU Operator Life Cycle in the NVIDIA GPU Operator documentation.

  • Red Hat OpenShift AI Operator
    The version that you install depends on the version of IBM Cloud Pak for Data that you plan to install.
    • 5.0.0 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.1 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.2 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.3 requires Version 2.11.x

For more information on installing these operators, see Installing operators for services that require GPUs.

In addition you must have an external Db2 database.

End users must have Visual Studio Code on their workstations. For more information, see Set up a development environment in the IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z documentation.
None
This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Common core services (ccs)
  • Inference foundation models (watsonx_ai_ifm)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
  • 5.0.3 or later watsonx Code Assistant Base (wca_base)
watsonx Code Assistant for Z Code Explanation
To install this service, you must install the following operators:
  • Node Feature Discovery Operator

    Install the stable version of the operator.

  • NVIDIA GPU Operator

    Install the generally available version of the operator. For more information, see NVIDIA GPU Operator Life Cycle in the NVIDIA GPU Operator documentation.

  • Red Hat OpenShift AI Operator
    The version that you install depends on the version of IBM Cloud Pak for Data that you plan to install.
    • 5.0.0 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.1 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.2 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.3 requires Version 2.11.x

For more information on installing these operators, see Installing operators for services that require GPUs.

End users must have Visual Studio Code on their workstations.
None
This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Common core services (ccs)
  • Inference foundation models (watsonx_ai_ifm)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
watsonx.data None
The service automatically installs the following services if they are not already installed:
  • Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark
 None
watsonx.governance 5.0.0 To install this service, you must install the following operators:
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI Operator Version 2.8.3

For more information on installing these operators, see Installing operators for services that require GPUs.

5.0.1 or later This service does not have any external dependencies.

The service automatically installs the following services if they are not already installed:

  • Watson Machine Learning

If you want to connect to an integrated database for watsonx.governance Model Management, you must have at least one instance of a supported, integrated database:

  • Db2
  • Db2 Warehouse
  • EDB Postgres
The following services are not required but provide additional functionality:
  • Cognos Analytics enables you to generate reports and create dashboards.
  • watsonx.ai enables you to build and deploy generative AI assets.
 This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Common core services (ccs)
  • Db2 as a service (db2aaservice)
  • Db2U (db2u)
  • Inference foundation models (watsonx_ai_ifm)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
  • RabbitMQ (opencontent_rabbitmq)
watsonx Orchestrate
To install this service, you must install the following operators:
  • Node Feature Discovery Operator

    Install the stable version of the operator.

  • NVIDIA GPU Operator

    Install the generally available version of the operator. For more information, see NVIDIA GPU Operator Life Cycle in the NVIDIA GPU Operator documentation.

  • Red Hat OpenShift AI Operator
    The version that you install depends on the version of IBM Cloud Pak for Data that you plan to install.
    • 5.0.0 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.1 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.2 requires Version 2.8.3
    • 5.0.3 requires Version 2.11.x

For more information on installing these operators, see Installing operators for services that require GPUs.

To install this service, you must install the following software on the cluster:

You can optionally install IBM Robotic Process Automation if you want to run Robotic Process Automation bots as skills in watsonx Orchestrate. For more information, see Installing IBM Robotic Process Automation.
This service automatically installs the following service:
  • watsonx Assistant
 This service automatically installs the following dependencies if they are not already installed:
  • Cloud Native PostgreSQL (postgresql)
  • Common core services (ccs)
  • etcd (opencontent_etcd)
  • Inference foundation models (watsonx_ai_ifm)
  • MinIO (opencontent_minio)
  • MongoDB (both mongodb and mongodb_cp4d)
  • OpenSearch (opencontent_elasticsearch)
  • RabbitMQ (opencontent_rabbitmq)
  • Redis (ibm_redis_cp)
  • Watson data governor (data_governor)
  • Watson Gateway (watson_gateway)

Supported web browsers

You can use the following web browsers to access the Cloud Pak for Data web client.

  • Mozilla Firefox (recommended)
  • Google Chrome
  • Microsoft Edge

It is recommended that you use the latest available version or the latest version approved by your enterprise.