Overview of Installation

Overview of install procedure

For more information about other methods of installation, see Installation options.

1. Begin by making the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration operators available to the cluster.
   • If your cluster has direct access to the internet, see Adding the online catalog sources to a cluster.
   • If your cluster is in a restricted (air-gapped) network environment, see Mirroring in a restricted (air-gapped) environment.
2. When the operators are available to the cluster, use the Operator Lifecycle Manager to install the operators required for your deployment:
   • Installing operators

3. If you are using an internet-connected cluster, you need to add your entitlement key to namespaces where you want to deploy Cloud Pak for Integration capabilities and runtimes so that images can be pulled from the IBM Entitled Container Fulfillment Registry:

   • Applying your entitlement key
4. Use operators to deploy instances of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration capabilities and runtimes that you will use. IBM recommends deploying the following capabilities and runtimes (Platform Navigator in particular) because they facilitate the use of the other capabilities and runtimes:
   • Platform Navigator deployment
   • Asset reuse deployment
   • Transaction tracing deployment
   For information about other capabilities and runtimes, and how to deploy them, see Deploying Component Products.
5. If you are in a cluster administrator role, you need an admin password. The password is generated for the admin user the first time a capability or runtime is deployed. See Platform Navigator deployment.

Uninstalling

When you no longer require an installation of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, use the procedure in Uninstalling.

Troubleshooting

• For known issues and workarounds, see IBM Cloud Pak for Integration - Known Limitations
• To obtain logs or open a support case, see Troubleshooting.