Managing watsonx.data infrastructure
You can configure the infrastructure for watsonx.data by adding and connecting components, such as engines, data sources, storage, and other services.
You define and manage the components that control where your data originates, where your data is stored, and how your data is processed on the infrastructure page. The infrastructure page shows a unified view of all resources that are associated with the selected watsonx.data instance.
Infrastructure capabilities
You can manage the infrastructure for watsonx.data with the following capabilities.
- Components to store, process, or access data
- Some components have a separate experience. For example, OpenSearch has its own user interface.
- Connections between components
- You can control which compute engines are available to process each dataset. You associate one or more engines to each catalog or database.
- Access control for components
- You can manage which users can access each component and the actions that users have permission to perform.
Infrastructure terminology differences between the Console UI and the Platform UI
The infrastructure page on both UIs show the same content for the same watsonx.data instance. However, some types of infrastructure components are listed in different categories on the Console and Platform UIs.
| Type of component | Category in Console UI | Category in Platform UI | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compute engines that process data | Engines | Compute | Presto, Spark |
| Storage buckets that store data | Storage | Storage | Amazon S3, IBM Cloud Object Storage |
| Services that process and store data | Services | Compute | Milvus, OpenSearch |
| Related datasets of ingested data | Catalogs | Databases | Apache Iceberg, Apache Hive |
| Remote data sources that contain data | Data sources | Databases | Salesforce, Db2 |
Accessing your infrastructure
You can manage your infrastructure on both the Platform and the Console UI. Because you access the same instance of watsonx.data in both UIs, you see the same infrastructure.
To go to the infrastructure page:
- From the navigation menu, select Administration > Infrastructure.
- Click the link on the home page or select Infrastructure Manager from the navigation menu.