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Timings for the deployment🔗

Duration of the overall deployment process🔗

Phase Step Time in minutes Comments
10 - Validation 3
20 - Prepare Generators 3
30 - Provision infrastructure Create VPC 1
Create VSI without storage 5
Create VSI with storage 10
Create VPC ROKS cluster 45
Install ROKS OCS add-on and create storage classes 45
40 - Configure infrastructure Install NFS on VSIs 10
Create NFS storage classes 5
Create private container registry namespace 5
50 - Install Cloud Pak Prepare OpenShift for Cloud Pak for Data install 60 During this step, the compute nodes may be replaced and also the Kubernetes services may be restarted.
Mirror Cloud Pak for Data images to private registry (only done when using private registry) 30-600 If the entitled registry is used, this step will be skipped. When using a private registry, if images have already been mirrored, the duration will be much shorter, approximately 10 minutes.
Install Cloud Pak for Data control plane 20
Create Cloud Pak for Data subscriptions for cartridges 15
Install cartridges 20-300 The amount of time really depends on the cartridges being installed. In the table below you will find an estimate of the installation time for each cartridge. Cartridges will be installed in parallel through the operators.
60 - Configure Cloud Pak Configure Cloud Pak for Data LDAP 5
Provision instances for cartridges 30-60 For cartridges that have instances defined. Creation of the instances will run in parallel where possible.
Configure cartridge and instance permissions based on LDAP config 10
70 - Deploy assets No activities yet 0
80 - Smoke tests Show Cloud Pak for Data cluster details 1

Cloud Pak for Data cartridge deployment🔗

Cartridge Full name Installation time Instance provisioning time Dependencies
cpd_platform Cloud Pak for Data control plane 20 N/A
ccs Common Core Services 75 N/A
db2aas Db2 as a Service 30 N/A
iis Information Server 60 N/A ccs, db2aas
ca Cognos Analytics 20 45 ccs
planning-analytics Planning Analytics 15 N/A
watson_assistant Watson Assistant 70 N/A
watson-discovery Watson Discovery 100 N/A
] watson-ks Watson Knowledge Studio 20 N/A
watson-speech Watson Speech to Text and Text to Speech 20 N/A
wkc Watson Knowledge Catalog 90 N/A ccs, db2aas, iis
wml Watson Machine Learning 45 N/A ccs
ws Watson Studio 30 N/A ccs

Examples:

  • Cloud Pak for Data installation with just Cognos Analytics will take 20 (control plane) + 75 (ccs) + 20 (ca) + 45 (ca instance) = ~160 minutes
  • Cloud Pak for Data installation with Cognos Analytics and Watson Studio will take 20 (control plane) + 75 (ccs) + 45 (ws+ca) + 45 (ca instance) = ~185 minutes
  • Cloud Pak for Data installation with just Watson Knowledge Catalog will take 20 (control plane) + 75 (ccs) + 30 (db2aas) + 60 (iis) + 90 (wkc) = ~275 minutes
  • Cloud Pak for Data installation with Watson Knowledge Catalog and Watson Studio will take the same time because WS will finish 30 minutes after installing CCS, while WKC will take a lot longer to complete