Option 1: Installing an online deployment

Make sure that you prepare your environment and install the necessary software before you go to the resources to install the IBM certified software.

About this task

The administrator must make sure that the target cluster meets all the requirements. Make sure that the client that you connect with has all the necessary tools.

The following diagram shows the steps that are involved in installing a production deployment on OCP or ROKS. You are at Step 2.

Enterprise installation workflow
Tip: Whenever possible, work with subject matter experts to help you prepare each pattern that you intend to install. Patterns can be installed with a minimum amount of customization with default secrets and configurations. However, you are more than likely to want to customize a pattern at some point. Therefore, you must assess the configuration parameters with the help of the software experts to identify the values that you need to provide to the custom resource.

The resources that you need to create depend on whether you want to install the operator in "all namespaces on your cluster". The scripts create the needed image pull secrets and persistent volume claims for you in the target namespace and the openshift-operators namespace. If you use the OpenShift console, you need to create all of these resources in both namespaces.