Incremental adoption (IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps on OpenShift)

Learn about incremental adoption and the deployment types that are available for IBM Cloud Pak® for AIOps.

Overview

incremental adoption offers the flexibility of two deployment types that provide a different combination of footprint and capabilities.

  • Base deployment: has a smaller footprint than the extended deployment, with vCPU and memory savings of around 15% for a production deployment. The log anomaly detection and ticket analysis (similar incidents and change risk) capabilities are not enabled.
  • Extended deployment: has a larger footprint and has the full capabilities of IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps enabled.

The IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps license entitles you to use either of the deployment types.

Capabilities and hardware requirements

Log anomaly detection collects and analyzes log data to identify deviations from expected patterns of behavior. For more information, see Log anomaly detection.

Ticket analysis collects ticket data and compares it with similar tickets previously associated with incidents to identify possible remediating changes, and the risk of implementing those changes. For more information, see Similar ticket comparison and Change risk.

For more information about the footprint of each deployment type, see Hardware requirements.

Selecting your deployment type (install)

You can choose to install a base deployment or an extended deployment of IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps. An editable value in the Installation custom resource, which is defaulted for a base deployment, determines the deployment type.

Deployments that upgrade to IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4.9.0 inherit their previous deployment type.

For more information about setting the deployment type at installation time, see the topic for your installation method:

Changing your deployment type (postinstall)

Subject to further hardware requirements, you can update the deployment type of a new or upgraded deployment at any time after installation to be either a base deployment or an extended deployment. For more information, see Updating the deployment type.