Installing a Demo deployment

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Containers:
A deployment that is intended for demonstration purposes is much quicker to install than an Enterprise deployment. Unix-based shell scripts are provided to help a cluster administrator set up the cluster and for a non-administrator user to run the installation. The Business Automation Workflow capabilities to install are packaged into several patterns to simplify integration and share resources.

About this task

For more information about Demo deployments and how to plan for them, see "Demo installation" in Planning for IBM Business Automation Workflow on containers in 21.0.2. Ignore any information about Workstream Services, Business Automation Insights, and Machine Learning Server (including Intelligent Task Prioritization and Workforce Insights). These are not included in stand-alone IBM Business Automation Workflow.

Remember: A Demo deployment is intended for evaluation purposes. It uses utility images such as openldap, busybox, phpldapadmin, and alpine to deploy a complete CP4BACluster instance with default services. These images are not suitable for production. The demo mode also sets default credentials to make it easy to deploy, and for this reason you must not keep a Demo deployment for development or for production.

Deployments for development and for production must use an Enterprise deployment.

You'll install the "IBM Business Automation Workflow" capability and pattern. For the list of components that are installed, see Containers in V21.0.2: Installing, configuring, and migrating.

Procedure

Get the software.
1. Log in to MyIBM Container Software Library with the IBMid and password that is associated with the entitled software.
2. In the Container software library tile, verify your entitlement on the View library page, and then go to Get entitlement key to retrieve the key.
Set up the cluster.
There are two ways to set up the cluster.
- You can set up the cluster with the OCP CLI and console if you plan to use the OCP Catalog in Operator Hub. To prepare the cluster, follow the instructions in Setting up the cluster for Operator Hub for IBM Business Automation Workflow on containers in 21.0.2.
- You can use the admin script to set up the cluster. Follow the instructions in Setting up the cluster with the admin script.
  Important:
  - If you haven't already downloaded the cert-kubernetes files, go to https://github.com/IBM/cloud-pak/raw/master/repo/case/ibm-cs-bawautomation-2.1.12.tgz to get the .tar.gz file for the IBM Business Automation Workflow repository. Extract the package, and then extract the contents from the .tar file in the ibm-cs-bawautomation/inventory/cp4aOperatorSdk/files/deploy/crs folder. Use the tar -xvzf command to extract it to the cert-kubernetes directory directory.
  - When you run the cluster setup script, cp4a-clusteradmin-setup.sh, add a baw parameter:
```
./cp4a-clusteradmin-setup.sh baw
```
Install the Demo deployment.
There are two ways to install the deployment.
- If you set up the cluster with the IBM operator catalog in the OpenShift Operator Hub, you can use it by following the instructions in Installing IBM Business Automation Workflow capability in Operator Hub in 21.0.2.
- You can install the IBM Business Automation Workflow capability by running the deployment script. Follow the instructions in Installing the capabilities by running the deployment script.
  Important: When you run the deployment script, cp4a-deployment.sh, add a baw parameter:
```
./cp4a-deployment.sh baw
```

Results

Your Demo deployment is complete.