Supported options on IBM Cloud
Supported installation and storage options for running IBM Cloud Pak for Integration on IBM Cloud.
Installation options
Cloud Pak for Integration runs on any OpenShift environment on IBM Cloud. This includes but is not limited to:
A cluster deployed manually using User Provisioned Infrastructure.
A managed OpenShift cluster on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud.
For overview information on installing an OpenShift cluster for use with an IBM Cloud Pak, see Installing OpenShift Container Platform clusters.
Storage
The following table shows each capability's compatibility with these storage options:
IBM Cloud Block storage
IBM Cloud File storage
OpenShift Data Foundation (formerly OpenShift Container Storage) *
Portworx
* For OpenShift Data Foundation in a production environment, the optimal minimum deployment is 4 storage nodes, with 3 Object Storage Daemons (OSDs) on each node. This provides much greater data resiliency in the event of any OSD failures.
Integration capability | IBM block storage | IBM file storage | OpenShift Data Foundation | Portworx |
---|---|---|---|---|
Platform UI | Yes * | Yes, Gold GID only | Yes | Yes |
Asset sharing and reuse (Automation assets) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Integration tracing and troubleshooting (Operations Dashboard) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
API management (API Connect) | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Event Endpoint Management (API Connect) | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Application integration dashboard (App Connect Dashboard) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Application integration server (App Connect) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Application integration designer (App Connect Designer) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
High speed transfer server (Aspera HSTS) | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Event streams | Yes | No | Yes, block storage only | Yes |
Messaging (MQ), single-instance | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Messaging (MQ), native HA | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Messaging (MQ), multi-instance | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Gateway (DataPower Gateway) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Foundational services (Monitoring, licensing, managing users) | Yes, Gold only | No | Yes | Yes |
* Only compatible with RWO when following the instructions on Deploying the Platform UI with RWO storage