Administering

Use the following information to manage and maintain your watsonx.data developer edition.

watsonx.data Developer edition

Connecting to external object stores over https: Developer edition
IBM® watsonx.data needs a valid signer certificate to establish a connection with the object stores secured with https.
Exposing the MinIO ports and generating credentials
To demonstrate or test the functioning of IBM watsonx.data, use the embedded MinIO object store to load or store data. To access the embedded MinIO object store, you must expose the ports and generate credentials.
Exposing Metadata Service ports
To facilitate connection from external applications (services outside of docker or Podman), such as the integration with Db2, Netezza, and Spark to watsonx.data, you must expose the Metadata Service port details.
Using a custom TLS certificate
When you install IBM watsonx.datadeveloper version, a self-signed key and certificate are generated. All HTTPS clients, including web browsers might not trust the self-signed certificates. It is recommended to replace the self-signed certificate with your own certificate..
Connecting to a Presto server-Developer edition
Presto CLI provides a terminal-based interactive shell to run queries. You can connect to the Presto server either through Presto CLI installed as part of the ibm-lh-client package or through Presto CLI installed separately.
Customizing jvm.config and config.properties
Customize the Java virtual machine (JVM) parameters and configuration properties for IBM watsonx.data developer version.
Customization through API
You can customize watsonx.data properties through an API.
Resource group properties
You can format the resource group JSON file to match with the sample resource group file that you can download from the console.

Parent topic: Setting up watsonx.data developer edition