To install OpenShift using IBM Catalog, you must login with your IBM Cloud
account in the IBM Cloud website and configure the settings in order to provision your OpenShift
cluster.
To log in to the IBM Cloud website, go to
https://cloud.ibm.com.
Procedure
- Go to the Catalog menu.
- Search for Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud.
- Click the Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud tile.
- In the Select your setup section, ensure that Manual setup
is selected.
- In the Infrastructure section, ensure that Classic is
selected.
- In the Location section:
- Select your preferred Resource Group. For more information
about Resource Groups on IBM Cloud, see Managing resource groups.
- Select your preferred Geography. This is the data center region
that hosts your Red Hat® OpenShift® cluster.
- Select your preferred Availability. For lesser cost, you can choose Single zone. If
you want to have higher availability cluster choose Multi zone.
- Select your preferred Metro. This is the data center exact
location that hosts your Red Hat OpenShift cluster. When Availability is
Multizone when you select the Metro more than one data center will be
automatically selected. When Availability is Single zone when you select the
Metro just one data center will be automatically selected.
- In the Worker pool section you choose the worker flavor and the
number of worker nodes per zone. Here you can select some different options available for the
configuration of CPU, memory, disk, and operating system of the cluster worker nodes.
- Click in the Change flavor button and choose an option that can
support the Maximo® Application Suite and its prerequisites, according to your needs.
-
After chosen the flavor, fill the number of worker nodes per zone. For example, this option in
the following example should work for general Maximo Application Suite deployments
including all applications and its prerequisites:
You always can increase and decrease the number of worker nodes per zone after the OpenShift
cluster is provisioned.
- In the Worker pool name, type your preferred worker pool name or leave the
default.
- Ensure that the Encrypt local disk option is set to
On.
- In the Master service endpoint field, select Public
endpoint only.
- Under the Orchestration service section, select the appropriate version supported
by the Maximo Application Suite version you plan to install. For example, for Maximo Application Suite version 8.8.0 select the latest OpenShift 4.8.x version available in the
list. For more information about the OpenShift versions that are supported by the Maximo Application Suite version you plan to install, you can create a System requirements report, searching for
Maximo Application Suite and selecting the Version you plan to
install.
- Under the OCP entitlement section select Apply my Cloud Pak OCP
entitlement to this worker pool.
- Based on your customized selections you may need to add additional Infrastructure
permissions. Review the results of the Infrastructure permissions checker and add the
permissions that are missing. For more information about assigning infrastructure permissions, see
the docs.
- In the Resources details section, type your preferred Cluster name or leave
the default. You can also create Tags for it. If your user tags are billing related, consider
writing tags as key:value pairs, such as costctr:124. User tags are visible
account-wide. Avoid including sensitive data in the tag name. Learn
more.
- You do not need to configure anything in the Integrations section at this time. If you
want to, you can configure them later after the Red Hat OpenShift cluster is provisioned.
- For more information about Activity tracking integration, see this doc.
- For more information about Logging integration, see this doc.
- For more information about Monitoring integration, see this doc.
- Review the Summary and click Create.
Results
The Red Hat OpenShift cluster starts to be provisioned on IBM Cloud.
What to do next
You can now monitor the Red Hat OpenShift cluster provisioning.
