IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Version 1.0

With the IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management, you gain multicloud visibility, governance, and automation. Capabilities include multicluster management for containers, full stack multicloud provisioning, and infrastructure and application monitoring for mixed workloads.

• Overview
• Capabilities
• Installation overview
• Patches

Overview

The IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management includes IBM Cloud Private, IBM Multicloud Manager, IBM Cloud Event Management, IBM Cloud Automation Manager, and the IBM Cloud App Management technology preview. With IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management, you get more application and cluster visibility across the enterprise to any public or private cloud. You can improve automation by simplifying your IT and application operations management with increased flexibility and cost savings, and intelligent data analysis driven by predictive signals.

You can also take advantage of the governance, as with this IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management, you can manage your multicloud environments with a consistent set of configuration and security policies across all applications and clusters.

Capabilities

Enterprise-class solution and platform with IBM Cloud Private

IBM Cloud Private is a next generation, pre-packaged enterprise-class solution, and platform for developing and managing containerized applications. It is an integrated environment for managing containers that includes the container orchestrator Kubernetes, a private image registry, a management console, and monitoring frameworks.

• Getting started
• System requirements

Operations with IBM Multicloud Manager

IBM Multicloud Manager provides user visibility, application-centric management (governance, deployments, health, operations), and policy-based compliance across clouds and clusters. With IBM Multicloud Manager, you have control of your Kubernetes clusters. You can ensure that your clusters are secure, operating efficiently, and delivering the service levels that applications expect.

• Getting started
• System requirements

Visibility with IBM Cloud Event Management

You can visualize and manage multiple clusters when you install Event Management. By using Event Management, you can consolidate information from your monitoring systems and address problems. Events indicate that something happened on an application, service, or another monitored object. All events that are related to a single application, or to a particular cluster, are correlated with an incident. Event Management can receive events from various monitoring sources, either on-premises or in the cloud.

• Getting started
• System requirements

Provisioning with IBM Cloud Automation Manager

IBM Cloud Automation Manager is a cloud management solution in IBM Cloud Private that automates provisioning of infrastructure and virtual machine applications across multiple cloud environments with optional workflow orchestration.

• Getting started
• System requirements

Monitoring with IBM Cloud App Management

Technology preview: Monitor cloud and on-premises application environments with IBM Cloud App Management. Bridge your existing infrastructure into the cloud.

• Getting started
• System requirements

Products included

Installation overview

Before you install the IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management, review the required hardware and system configuration for each product.

1. Download the IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management. For more information, see Installing entitled IBM software onto IBM Cloud Private.

2. Install IBM Cloud Private version 3.2.0 and configure IBM Multicloud Manager version 3.2.0 by using either option 1 or 2:

   • Option 1: Installation with your own IaaS

   • Option 2: Installation with OpenShift on IBM Cloud

3. Optional: Install IBM Cloud Event Manager on top of IBM Multicloud Manager. For details, see Event Management for IBM Multicloud Manager.
4. Optional: Install IBM Cloud Automation Manager. For details, see IBM Cloud Automation Manager installation.
5. Optional: If you want to use the technology preview:
   1. Uninstall the current Eventing by following the steps in Uninstalling.
   2. Apply the patches that are listed in the Patches section.
   3. Install the IBM Cloud App Management technology preview. For details, see IBM Cloud App Management installation.

Patches

After completing the installation steps, check IBM Fix Central to see whether patches that need to be applied to your cluster are available.

The following patches are available:

• Multicluster endpoint policy compliance patch for IBM Cloud Private 3.2.0 clusters

• Platform header patch for IBM Cloud Private 3.2.0 clusters