Administering Cloud Pak for Data

IBM® Cloud Pak for Data administration tasks fall into two areas.

Cluster administration

Red Hat® OpenShift® cluster administrators or project administrators might have to complete the following tasks to ensure that services can run smoothly on the cluster and that the cluster has sufficient resources.

• Scaling services
• Adding nodes to your Cloud Pak for Data cluster
• Backing up and restoring your project
• Migrating Cloud Pak for Data metadata and clusters

Cloud Pak for Data platform administration

A Cloud Pak for Data administrator completes the following tasks to ensure that the platform is running smoothly, and that users have access to Cloud Pak for Data.

• Managing the platform
• Managing users
• Connecting to your LDAP server
• Importing JDBC drivers for data sources
• Gathering diagnostic information
• Customizing the platform