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1. Introduction

Coined by Gartner, AIOps—i.e. artificial intelligence for IT operations—is the application of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, such as natural language processing and machine learning models, to automate and streamline operational workflows. The IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps is an AIOps platform that deploys advanced, explainable AI using the IT Operations (ITOps) toolchain data so that you can confidently assess, diagnose, and resolve incidents across mission-critical workloads.

IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps eases the path to adopting advanced AI for ITOps to decrease your operational costs. With this Cloud Pak, you can increase your customer satisfaction by proactively avoiding incidents and accelerating your time to resolution.

By integrating multiple separate, manual IT operations tools with into a single, intelligent, and automated IT operations platform, AIOps enables IT operations teams to respond more quickly—even proactively—to slowdowns and outages, with end-to-end visibility and context. It bridges the gap between an increasingly diverse, dynamic, and difficult-to-monitor IT landscape and siloed teams, on the one hand, and user expectations for little or no interruption in application performance and availability, on the other.

Welcome to the Cloud Pak for AIOps on Linux installation lab. You will be going through several key exercises that will help you learn key skills around how to plan and install this product on RHEL Linux VMs.

The Linux VM based installation of AIOps does not use OpenShift. It instead uses a lightweight Kubernetes platform (K3S), which deploys very rapidly and therefore makes it ideal for demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, and sandbox environments. For a production deployment use-case however, OpenShift provides a lot more day-2-operations capabilities out of the box and so may be better suited. OpenShift deployments take more planning and time to deploy and set up however, which is why the Linux-based deployment is ideal for quick trials and demos where timescales are typically shorter.

This entire lab can be completed within one day.

Lab Content​

In this Lab, we will explore the following topics:

  • How to prepare a set of Linux virtual machines for installation of AIOps
  • How to install a small size deployment of the Cloud Pak for AIOps onto Linux VMs

The lab should be executed in the numbered order that you see on the left side of the screen in the navigation pane as sections likely depend on work completed in prior sections.