Preparing your chosen capabilities
About this task
The following progress bar shows you where you are in the installation process. You can click the completed parts in the diagram to go back and check that you did everything that you needed to do.
Preparing a capability can involve many steps and more often than not involves setting up persistence and taking measures to secure the containers.
Take note of the capabilities and the optional components that you plan to install. Many capabilities include components from other patterns, so you must search for and use the preparing tasks under these capability headings to make sure that your installation is successful. For more information, see Capabilities for production deployments.
Remember, Business Automation Navigator (BAN) is always installed in every deployment, so you need to create the database (ICNDB) and its secret (ibm-ban-secret). As a minimum, you need a supported database before you can apply a custom resource. By default, the Resource Registry (RR) used by Business Automation Studio uses the dynamic storage class to automatically backup data. You can configure a persistent volume if you want to change the default.
In addition to preparing BAN and RR, the Document Processing capability, for example,
includes components from the document_processing pattern, but also includes options
from the foundation pattern, and the content pattern.
What to do next
After you complete all the preparation steps for all the capabilities that you want to install, go ahead and create a production deployment. For more information, see Creating a production deployment.