Express installation

You can use express installation if your deployment meets the following requirements and criteria:

Add the IBM operators to the list of operators you can install.

1. Go to the OpenShift web console
2. In the top banner, click the plus (+) icon to open the Import YAML dialog box.
3. Paste the resource definition into the dialog box:

   apiVersion: operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1
   kind: CatalogSource
   metadata:
     name: ibm-operator-catalog
     namespace: openshift-marketplace
   spec:
     displayName: IBM Operator Catalog
     image: 'icr.io/cpopen/ibm-operator-catalog:latest'
     publisher: IBM
     sourceType: grpc
     updateStrategy:
       registryPoll:
         interval: 45m

4. Click Create.

To install Cloud Pak for Integration in its own namespace, create a docker registry secret named ibm-entitlement-key, using the following command. In the third line, replace entitlement_key with the value of your entitlement key from the previous section, and in the last line, replace target_namespace with the name of your target namespace:

oc create secret docker-registry ibm-entitlement-key \
    --docker-username=cp \
    --docker-password=entitlement_key \
    --docker-server=cp.icr.io \
    --namespace=target_namespace

1. Go to the OpenShift web console.
2. In the left navigation panel, click Operators > Installed Operators.
3. In the list, find and click IBM Cloud Pak for Integration Platform Navigator.
4. In the center pane, click the Platform Navigator tab.
5. Click Create PlatformNavigator.
6. Change Project to your project name. To do so, click the drop-down arrow and select your project name from the list. The project name in the example screen below is "cp4i".
   
   Note: Project is the same as the Kubernetes term namespace. You may encounter both terms in the UI or in the documentation. They are interchangeable.
7. In the Name field, enter a name for the new instance.
8. Accept the terms of the terms of the license agreement:
   • Under "Full licenses", click the link that matches your version of Cloud Pak for Integration. See Licensing for details about what license to select. The License information page opens.
   • Review the license agreement.
   • Click I agree or I do not agree.
   • Return to Form view and next to License, click the arrow to expand the license acceptance section.
   • Set License Accept to true.
     
     For more information, see Licensing.
   • For License LI, click the arrow to open the drop-down list, and select a license. For details about specific licenses, see the "License versions" section in Licensing.
9. Specify the Storage class. Click the arrow to expand the Storage pane, then click the arrow arrow for Select Storage Class and select a file storage class.
   
   Note: If you do not see any storage class options listed, you must create a storage class. See the Requirements section for more information.
10. Set any other configuration values as appropriate.
11. Click Create.

    Your instance of Platform Navigator is added to the list of instances in the current project (namespace).

1. Log into the OpenShift web console with admin credentials. Make sure the Administrator view is selected.

   

2. In the navigation panel, click Workloads to expand the selections, then select Secrets.
3. Switch to the ibm-common-services project: At the top of the Secrets pane, click the arrow to expand the Project list, and select ibm-common-services.
4. Enter platform-auth-idp-credentials in the search box (optional) and click platform-auth-idp-credentials in the list.
5. Scroll down to the Data pane.

   

   Click Reveal Values and copy the value for admin_password.
6. Save the password to use when logging into IBM Automation.

When the Platform Navigator status changes to Ready, you can log into IBM Automation to access Cloud Pak for Integration functionality.

1. Go to the OpenShift web console.
2. In the navigation panel, click Operators > Installed Operators.
3. In the Installed Operators pane, click IBM Cloud Pak for Integration Platform Navigator.
4. Click Platform Navigator.
5. Click the installed instance link from the list, then click the link under Platform Navigator UI.
6. At the login screen, click IBM provided credentials (admin only).

   

7. For Username, enter admin. For Password, enter the IBM admin password you obtained in Getting the admin password.
8. Click Log in.