Installing watsonx.data

watsonx.data on Red Hat® OpenShift®

Setting up a client workstation
To install watsonx.data, you must have a client workstation that can connect to the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
Setting up a cluster
Before you install watsonx.data, you must install and setup a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
Collecting required information
To successfully install watsonx.data, you must have specific information about your environment.
Preparing to run watsonx.data installs from a private container registry
If you plan to use a private container registry to host the watsonx.data software images, you must mirror the images from the IBM Entitled Registry and configure the cluster to pull the images from the private container registry.
Preparing your cluster
Before you install watsonx.data, complete the following tasks to prepare your cluster.
Creating image pull secret for IBM Cloud based installation
With OpenShift Container Platform, you can create a global image pull secret that each worker node in the cluster can use to pull images from a private registry.
Prerequisite for installing watsonx.data on Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Service (ROKS)
Before installing IBM® watsonx.data on ROKS, complete the following steps.
Installing IBM Cloud Pak for Data and watsonx.data on Red Hat OpenShift
A cluster administrator can install IBM watsonx.data on a Red Hat OpenShift cluster.
Additional customization in watsonx.data
A project administrator can specify additional customization of properties for different components in IBM watsonx.data. You can set additional customizations other than the default ones as part of the post-install procedure. The following specifications are optional and it can be altered to change the component-level customizations.
Uninstalling watsonx.data
If you need to uninstall IBM watsonx.data, you can remove the custom resources and the Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) objects that are associated with the components.

Parent topic: Setting up watsonx.data on Red Hat OpenShift