Environment variables for silent mode installation

A silent installation of the Cloud Pak operator for either a starter or production deployment needs a minimum set of environment variables. The variables must be created before the cluster setup script is run.

The following example sets the environment variables that you need to install a production deployment on an OpenShift Container Platform.

export CP4BA_AUTO_PLATFORM="OCP"
export CP4BA_AUTO_DEPLOYMENT_TYPE="production"
export CP4BA_AUTO_NAMESPACE="silent-install"
export CP4BA_AUTO_CLUSTER_USER="username"
export CP4BA_AUTO_STORAGE_CLASS_OCP="managed-nfs-storage"
export CP4BA_AUTO_ENTITLEMENT_KEY="XXXXX"
Table 1. Environment variables to export
Parameters Description Example values
CP4BA_AUTO_CLUSTER_USER Enter an existing user on an OCP or ROKS cluster. Typically, this user is the non-admin user that runs the deployment script. The user is given the required roles to install the Cloud Pak for Business Automation custom resource. "username"
CP4BA_AUTO_DEPLOYMENT_TYPE Valid values are: "starter" and "production". "starter"
CP4BA_AUTO_ENTITLEMENT_KEY The IBM entitlement key variable that is used to pull the images for OCP and ROKS platform deployments.
If you enter a value for the entitlement key, you do not need to set any of these parameters:
  • CP4BA_AUTO_PUSH_IMAGE_LOCAL_REGISTRY
  • CP4BA_AUTO_LOCAL_REGISTRY
  • CP4BA_AUTO_LOCAL_REGISTRY_PASSWORD
  • CP4BA_AUTO_LOCAL_REGISTRY_USER
 "XXXXXX"
CP4BA_AUTO_LOCAL_REGISTRY The name of the image registry. "hyc-cloud-private-daily-docker-local.artifactory.swg-devops.com"
CP4BA_AUTO_LOCAL_REGISTRY_PASSWORD The password for the username. "XXXXXX"
CP4BA_AUTO_LOCAL_REGISTRY_USER The username to use to pull the images from the image registry. "XXXX@example.com"
CP4BA_AUTO_NAMESPACE The target namespace to deploy the Cloud Pak operator. "my-namespace"
CP4BA_AUTO_PLATFORM Valid values are: "ROKS" and "OCP". "OCP"
CP4BA_AUTO_PUSH_IMAGE_LOCAL_REGISTRY Local registry where you pushed the images. Valid values are: true or false. true
CP4BA_AUTO_STORAGE_CLASS_FAST_ROKS The storage class to use if CP4BA_AUTO_PLATFORM is set as "ROKS". "cp4a-file-retain-gold-gid"
CP4BA_AUTO_STORAGE_CLASS_OCP The storage class to use if CP4BA_AUTO_PLATFORM is set as "OCP". "managed-nfs-storage"