Amazon Web Services Content Runtime with existing Chef Server template variables

The following tables list the Amazon template variables.

Cloud Provider

Parameter Default Value Description
AWS User ID ubuntu An internal field that is needed wherever an ID is required for an image.
Security Group ID The ID of security group that exists in Amazon cloud. The security group is used while creating the Content Runtime virtual machine.
VPC Subnet ID The VPC Subnet ID to use while creating Content Runtime. The subnet must exist in Amazon.
Amazon EC2 Instance Type m3.large The type of the Amazon EC2 Instance. The default setting is the recommended size for running the Content Runtime.
AWS region The AWS region to create Content Runtime virtual machine

Cloud Provider Optional Settings

Parameter Default Value Description
Private IP Address Static IPv4 address to be assigned to Content Runtime virtual machine. The provided IP address must be associated to the subnet id. If empty, AWS assigns an IP address that is associated to the subnet id.

Additional Settings

Parameter Default Value Description
Network Visibility The network connection that is associated with the Content Runtime virtual machine instance. If network visibility is private, connection must exist between IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps and the network connection. The network connection is associated with the Content Runtime virtual machine that is being created.

Managed services Parameters

Parameter Default Value Description
Enable FIPS on pattern manager and software repository containers False True to enable FIPS on pattern manager and software repository container.
Pattern Manager Access Passphrase Passphrase used to access the REST API calls to the Pattern Manager.
Pattern Manager Administration Passphrase Administration passphrase that is used to access the administrative REST API calls to the Pattern Manager.
Key Name for Pattern Manager key set For Amazon and IBM clouds, the key must exist as a resource. For other provider types, the content is simply the name associated with the key.
Private Key for Pattern Manager - Base 64 encoded Private key to be used by Pattern Manager to communicate with the newly instantiated virtual machine. The key must be base64 encoded and must be associated with the public key named by the Key Name for Pattern Manager key set.
Public Key for Pattern Manager Public key to be used by Pattern Manager to communicate with the newly instantiated virtual machine. The key must match the public key named by the Key Name for Pattern Manager key set.
User's Public Key Public key that is added to the Content Runtime virtual machine's authorized_keys file so as to allow access using the associated private key.
Content Runtime Host Name ibm-content-runtime The host name of the virtual machine being created to be used as the Content Runtime. The name is just the host name and not the fully qualified host name.

Docker & Chef Settings

Parameter Default Value Description
Docker Registry hub.docker.com Docker registry to pull the Content Runtime Docker images. The images by default reside on the public Docker hub. The value is read only. It provides you the location where an image is pulled.
Chef License Agreement Newer Chef Server, Client, Chef DK require license agreement with Chef for commercial. By typing Agree to this field you confirm that you are either using old chef version or you have the required license agreement.
ChefDK version 3.0.36 Stable version of Chef DK that will be installed on pattern manager container.
Docker Enterprise Edition Repository URL This is an optional parameter. It is mandatory only if you use RHEL as the base image without Docker installed. RHEL supports Docker Enterprise Edition only. After you purchase the license, get the Docker Enterprise Edition Repository URL from https://store.docker.com/my-content External link icon. Docker Community Edition is used by default on other supported operating system.
Chef server Organization Name chef-org Chef server Organization name that is associated with the configuration of the Chef server.
Chef Administrator User name chef-admin Chef administrator user name that is associated with the configuration of the Chef server.
Install Chef Cookbooks true Should the Chef cookbooks be installed on the provided Chef server?
Chef Server FQDN Fully qualified domain name of a remote Chef server. Consists of the server's hostname and domain.
Chef Server IP Address IPv4 address of a remote Chef server.
Chef Server Certificate - Base 64 encoded Certificate (.pem file) of the remote Chef server encoded in base64.

Software Repository Settings

Parameter Default Value Description
Software Repository User name repouser User name to access the Software Repository.
Password for Software Repository Password for Software Repository User. The combination of user name and password is required to access the Software Repository.
Software Repository Port Number 8888 Port number for Software Repository HTTP access.
Software Repository Secure Port Number 9999 Port number for Software Repository HTTPS access.