Planning an enterprise installation

Before you install any IBM Cloud Pak® for Automation capability, it is important to understand what you need, what options you have, the entitlement of your license, and how you can measure the usage of your deployments.

As a Cloud Pak for Automation administrator, you need to produce a deployment plan on private/hybrid/public cloud to support your line of business (LoB) needs. You must work with other IT administrators (Enterprise Cloud Admin, DBA Admin, Security Admin, LDAP Admin) to gather information on the corporate IT infrastructure. Information such as databases, LDAP, security, Kafka, and storage classes are paramount to create a picture of your deployment architecture. All of this data is needed to properly configure the Cloud Pak for Automation capabilities.

Installation of Cloud Pak for Automation enterprise capabilities can be done in an assisted way or manually.
  • Assisted installation is done by running scripts to select capabilities and components. Each core capability has an equivalent custom resource template. Templates can make configuration of the capabilities easier by reducing the number of parameters that are needed when you do not want customizations.
  • Manual installation is done by editing the provided custom resource templates and then applying them to a Cloud Pak operator instance by using a CLI.
Important: Usage metrics help you to ensure that the sum of all CPU limits do not exceed the Virtual Processing Cores (VPC) entitlements on all virtual servers. You must install either the Cloud Platform Metering Service or IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) to gather the data.