Loading your purchased container images

Before you can install IBM® Business Automation Configuration Container, and use it to install the products of IBM Digital Business Automation for Multicloud, you must download your purchased product files and then load the container images into IBM Cloud Private. The catalog load-archive command processes, loads, tags, and pushes the images.

About this task

Business Automation Configuration Container is loaded as a Helm chart and is used to install all the other containers.

Procedure

Download the compressed files from IBM Passport Advantage®.
- New in 18.0.2 See the download document to find the part numbers for the components that you need.
- For 18.0.1 See the download document to find the part numbers for the components that you need.
- For 18.0.0 See the download document to find the part numbers for the components that you need.
Log in to your IBM Cloud Private cluster and docker registry from the command line.
```
cloudctl login -a https://cluster_CA_domain:8443 --skip-ssl-validation
```
```
docker login cluster_CA_domain:8500
```
Where cluster_CA_domain is the certificate authority (CA) domain name. If you did not specify a CA domain, the default value is mycluster.icp. The skip-ssl-validation parameter disables the SSL validation process. SSL validation is disabled in the example to do without a trusted certificate in development environments. The self-signed SSL certificate causes an error when using the cloudctl CLI.

If you want to load the archive into a specified namespace, you need to run the command with the -n parameter. The following example specifies the name of the namespace to load the archive as my-icp-space.
```
cloudctl login -a https://cluster_CA_domain:8443 --skip-ssl-validation \
-u admin -p admin -c id-mycluster-account -n my-icp-space
```
Load the archive by entering the catalog load-archive command.
- New in 18.0.2 The following example loads an archive file that is named CC0K1EN.tgz to the default registry.
```
cloudctl catalog load-archive --archive CC0K1EN.tgz --registry mycluster.icp:8500
```
- For 18.0.1 The following example loads an archive file that is named CNY8EEN.tgz to the default registry.
```
cloudctl catalog load-archive --archive CNY8EEN.tgz --registry mycluster.icp:8500
```
- For 18.0.0 The following example loads an archive file that is named CNWR9EN.tgz to the default registry.
```
cloudctl catalog load-archive --archive CNWR9EN.tgz --registry mycluster.icp:8500
```

Results

If the load command is successful, the container images are in the docker registry and the IBM Digital Business Automation for Multicloud Helm chart (ibm-dba-multicloud-prod) is available in the IBM Cloud Private catalog.