Supported platforms

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps adheres to the IBM Cloud Pak and Red Hat OpenShift version compatibility objective, and support and recommend installing on a supported Red Hat OpenShift EUS minor version.

For more information about support timelines for Red Hat OpenShift, including when a specific version is going out of support, see the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Life-Cycle Policy in the Red Hat OpenShift documentation.

Important:

• If you are planning to upgrade Red Hat OpenShift as part of an upgrade to IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4.8.1, you must complete the IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps upgrade before you upgrade Red Hat OpenShift.
• The hardware architecture for installing IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps must be x86_64 (amd64).
• Red Hat OpenShift v4.14 and onwards support heterogeneous architectures, but IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps does not support heterogeneous architectures. All nodes in the Red Hat OpenShift cluster must have the same architecture.

Red Hat OpenShift installation mode

IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps supports the OpenShift OwnNamespace and AllNamespaces installation modes. The OwnNamespace installation mode is the recommended installation mode because it provides better resilience and performance.

In the OwnNamespace installation mode, you must create and select a project (namespace) for the IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps operator to be installed into. In this mode, the operator watches and is available for use only in this single namespace. The All namespaces on the cluster (default) installation mode in the UI installation of the IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps operator is equivalent to the AllNamespaces mode in the CLI installation. In this mode, the operator is installed in the openshift-operators project (namespace), and watches and is available to all namespaces in the cluster. The Operator Deployment Lifecycle Manager (ODLM) installs suboperators in the same project (namespace) that you created the Installation custom resource instance in. Each suboperator watches and is available for use in its project (namespace).

For more information on Red Hat OpenShift operator installation modes, see Operator groups in the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform documentation.

Resource allocation for nodes

Red Hat OpenShift nodes must have adequate resources reserved. For more information, see Allocating resources for nodes in an OpenShift Container Platform cluster in the Red Hat OpenShift documentation, and the Red Hat Customer Portal.

Red Hat OpenShift HCP

IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps can be installed on a Red Hat OpenShift cluster that uses hosted control planes (HCP).

For more information about Red Hat OpenShift HCP, see Hosted Control Planes overview in the Red Hat OpenShift documentation.

IBM Fusion HCI Systems

IBM Fusion is a hyperconverged infrastructure configurated appliance to deploy bare metal Red Hat OpenShift on-premise along with IBM Fusion software. This is a simple turn-key enterprise-grade solution to deploy Red Hat OpenShift for consistent, rapid deployment and management.

You can install IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps on Red Hat OpenShift with IBM Fusion HCI Systems as your storage provider.

For more information, see IBM Fusion HCI Systems.

Linux

You can install a production deployment of IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps directly on Linux, without the need to install Red Hat OpenShift. For more information, see Deploying IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps on Linux.

Cloud platforms

IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps is supported on the following cloud platforms:

• IBM Cloud®
• AWS Marketplace
• AWS GovCloud
• Microsoft® Azure
• Google Cloud Platform

For more information about the storage providers that you can use on the following platforms, see Recommended storage providers.