Objectives

In this Exercise you will learn how to:

• Reserve an instance of a MAS Techzone Certified Base Image

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Before you begin:
This Exercise requires that you have:

1. completed the pre-requisites required for all exercises

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Login to IBM Technology Zone (aka TechZone) with your IBMid.

Search for TechZone Certified Base Images and you will find this page:

Scroll down untill you find the Maximo Application Suite images.
At this point in time (August '24) these two exists for version 9.0:

Click on Reserve in order to instantiate one of these. The Maximo Application Suite 9.0 - Core image was used in this lab.
Click on Reserve now or schedule for a later time if needed:

To understand the durations for the four different purposes, click on Reservation Duration Policy:

Demo and Pilot purposes requires an open opportunity in IBM Sales Cloud. Education and Test only require a purpose description:

In this case Education was selected, so a purpose description is needed and the geography has to be selected before scrolling down:

Select Master Node Flavor, OpenShift Version, Worker Node Count, and Worker Node Flavor before agreeing to IBM T&C and clicking on Submit:

You will be greeted with a Thank you. Click on My reservations:

You can see the status is Provisioning in the TecZone My reservations page:

After some time it will change to Ready:

In this case it only took 1 hour and 18 minutes to instatiate a Maximo Application Suite 9.0 - Core image:

Now you have an OpenShift Cluster where MAS Core is installed.
Click on the reservation and you will find the link to the OCP cluster as well as the credentials needed to login to it:

Click on the link to open the IBM Cloud environment. Select kube:admin:

Enter the credentials from the reservation page and click on Log in:

Navigate to the Pipelines tab and you should see the mas-masdevops-deploy pipeline succeeded:

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Congratulations you have successfully instantiated a MAS Techzone Certified Base Image.