Installing products on Certified Kubernetes

 New in 18.0.2  Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Kubernetes is an open source container-centric management environment for containerized workloads and services. The portability of CNCF Kubernetes means that you can use it to orchestrate your computing, networking, and storage for its workloads across a wide choice of platform and infrastructure providers.

About this task

Instructions on using the Helm charts and YAML files for Kubernetes deployment are provided in a GitHub repository. Use the documentation in the GitHub repository to configure the files for your cloud environment and install the products. For more information about high availability deployments, load balancing, and logging, see Managing and metering on Kubernetes.

  • Planning for product installation and metering
    Before you install any IBM Digital Business Automation for Multicloud product, it is important to understand the entitlement of each license, and how you can measure the usage of your deployments. Usage metrics help you to ensure that the sum of all CPU limits do not exceed the Virtual Processing Cores (VPC) entitlements on all virtual servers.
  • Prerequisites
    You must prepare your environment and supporting software before you install any other product or component of IBM Digital Business Automation for Multicloud.
  • Installing IBM FileNet Content Manager
    You use the Helm chart or YAML files in the GitHub repository to enter the deployment values for your content services in Kubernetes.
  • Installing IBM Business Automation Navigator
    You use the Helm chart or YAML files in the GitHub repository to enter the deployment values for your Navigtor service in Kubernetes.
  • Installing IBM Operational Decision Manager
    You use the Helm chart or YAML files in the GitHub repository to enter the deployment values for your ODM for production containers in Kubernetes.
  • Installing IBM Business Automation Insights
    You use the Helm chart or YAML files in the GitHub repository to enter the deployment values for your IBM Business Automation Insights containers in Kubernetes.
  • Completing post-deployment tasks
    For some deployments, additional steps are required to ensure the functionality of the environment.
Parent topic: Installing