Installing Watson Explorer oneWEX on IBM Cloud Private

You can install IBM Watson® Explorer oneWEX into IBM® Cloud Private (ICP), IBM's new Kubernetes-based private cloud, by using the IBM Cloud Private CLI. ICP 2.1 is supported by Watson™ Explorer oneWEX version 12.0.2 and earlier. ICP 3.x is supported by Watson Explorer oneWEX version 12.0.2.

About this task

Note: All links for ICP 3.x are linked to information for ICP 3.2. Please refer to the appropriate ICP version information you are using.

Important: If you are installing Watson Explorer oneWEX on IBM Cloud Private with OpenShift, see Installing Watson Explorer oneWEX on IBM Cloud Private with OpenShift.

Procedure

Install IBM Cloud Private

To install IBM Cloud Private and IBM Cloud Private CLI, see

Version Links

ICP 2.1 Installing IBM Cloud Private and Installing the IBM® Cloud Private CLI

ICP 3.x Installing IBM Cloud Private and Installing the IBM® Cloud Private CLI

Note: If you want to ensure that all data in motion is encrypted, then IPsec needs to be enabled in the cluster.

Version	Links
ICP 2.1	Installing IBM Cloud Private and Installing the IBM® Cloud Private CLI
ICP 3.x	Installing IBM Cloud Private and Installing the IBM® Cloud Private CLI

Install Watson Explorer oneWEX on the ICP catalog

Sign into your cluster from the IBM Cloud Private CLI.

Version Command

ICP 2.1 bx pr login -a https://<cluster_CA_domain>:8443 --skip-ssl-validation

ICP 3.x cloudctl login -a https://<cluster_CA_domain>:8443 --skip-ssl-validation
Sign in to the Docker private image registry.
```
docker login <cluster_CA_domain>:8500
```

Version	Command
ICP 2.1	`bx pr login -a https://<cluster_CA_domain>:8443 --skip-ssl-validation`
ICP 3.x	`cloudctl login -a https://<cluster_CA_domain>:8443 --skip-ssl-validation`

To install Watson Explorer oneWEX, type the command:

Version	Command
ICP 2.1	`bx pr load-ppa-archive --archive ibm-wex-prod-<version>.tar.gz`
ICP 3.x	`cloudctl catalog load-archive --archive ibm-wex-prod-<version>.tar.gz --registry mycluster.icp:8500/namespace`

where ibm-wex-prod-<version>.tar.gz is the Watson Explorer oneWEX installation package from Passport Advantage.

To view the chart in the ICP catalog, in IBM Cloud Private, select Admin > Repositories, and click Sync Repositories. From the Navigation menu, select Catalog.

Set up storage

You must set up the Persistent Volumes (PVs) for Watson Explorer oneWEX. To deploy Watson Explorer oneWEX on ICP, the Persistent Volumes listed in the Prerequisites section in the Watson Explorer oneWEX Helm Chart README are required. To create a Persistent Volume, see

Version Link

ICP 2.1 Creating a PersistentVolume

ICP 3.x Creating a PersistentVolume

See also Preparing storage with YAML on IBM Cloud Private.

If you use an NFS server, create each of the directories manually and change their file permissions to 777 before deploying the Persistent Volumes.

Version	Link
ICP 2.1	Creating a PersistentVolume
ICP 3.x	Creating a PersistentVolume

Configure Watson Explorer oneWEX on ICP

Important: You must have an Administrator or Cluster Administrator role.

In the IBM Cloud Private, go to Catalog > Helm Charts, select ibm-wex-prod, and click Configure. The major configuration parameters are listed in the Configuration section in the Watson Explorer Helm Chart README. Please refer to the Secret for initial administrator password section in the README to update the initial administrator password.

Deploy Watson Explorer oneWEX on ICP

Set the Release name and Target namespace, and click Install.

Note: Authentication and TLS for inter-pod communication are enabled by default, starting with v12.0.3.2. See Configure authentication and TLS for inter-pod communication when deploying Watson Explorer oneWEX when enabling or disabling this feature.