Connecting to clouds through DevOps Deploy

The IBM DevOps Deploy (Deploy) server can use virtual system patterns from cloud systems such as IBM® Cloud Orchestrator to create dynamic environments.

You must have a user account on a cloud system. This account must have permission to create script packages, to read information about virtual system patterns, IP groups, cloud groups, and environment profiles, and to create and delete virtual environments. See the documentation for your cloud system for more information about setting up permissions. For example, for IBM PureApplication® System, refer to the Understanding security roles for PureApplication® System.

For this type of cloud integration, the following cloud systems are supported:
  • IBM Cloud Orchestrator version 2.4 or later
  • IBM SmartCloud® Orchestrator versions 2.2 and 2.3
  • IBM PureApplication System version 1.0 or later
  • IBM Workload Deployer version 3.1.0.6 or later
Within these cloud systems, you can provision the virtual resources in environment profiles or in cloud groups. You can also assign the virtual resources to IP groups, but only when you assign the resources to an environment profile first. For more information, see Creating environments. You can also use virtual images with no more than one virtual network card. IBM DevOps Deploy (Deploy) does not support selecting different flavors of virtual resources or virtual nodes that have a multiplicity greater than 1.
  1. Configure the cloud system to install agents automatically.
    See Configuring virtual system pattern-based clouds.
  2. Create a connection to a cloud system.
    1. Click Resources > Cloud Connections and then click New Connection.
    2. In the Name field, specify a name for the connection.
    3. In the Management Console field, specify the host name of the cloud system.
    4. In the Username field, specify the user name of an account that has permission to request cloud resources.
      The server stores this user name and password and uses it to request cloud resources when you use this cloud connection.
    5. In the Password field, specify the password for the user account.
    6. Optional: In the Description field, specify a description for the connection.
    7. Optional: In the Teams field, specify the teams that have access to this connection.
    8. Optional: Set the timeout for cloud requests by opening the file installed.properties on the server and specifying the cloud.requestTimeout property.
      This property specifies the timeout in seconds. The default value is 7200 seconds, or two hours.
    9. Click Save.
    The new cloud connection is included in the Cloud Connections pane.
Model environments for this cloud. See Modeling environments for clouds that use virtual system patterns.