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Creating an Environment

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Ask your instructor if these pre-requirements have already been done for your workshop. You can skip this section in that case.

Create the Cloud Pak for Data Environment

To go through the workshop, you will need to have access to a Cloud Pak for Data environment with the following services installed:

You can reserve such an environment from IBM TechZone. Use any of the following options to do so:

  1. CP4D Pre-installed. Go to the Certified Collection for Pre-installed software. There, provision the environment CP4D 4.8.x - (no IAM) Base Installation that installs CP4D automatically. Once it's ready, you can add the required CP4D services by running the CP4D installation pipeline from the Openshift Console, section Pipelines.

  2. (Recommended) Using the CP4D Deployer. Go to the Certified Collection for VMWare on IBM Cloud. There, provision the environment Openshift VMWare Cluster - UPI - Deployer - V2. This environment will deploy Openshift with ODF storage, then you can use the CP4D Deployer to install CP4D automatically. This option is recommended becuase it allows you to install the latest version available automatically.

  3. Installing CP4D manually. Request the same environment as in the previous option. Then, use the Bastion Node available in the reservation to install CP4D yourself, following the CP4D Installation Documentation

In all cases, make sure you select:

  • OCP version 4.14
  • Storage ODF 2 TB
  • 5 Nodes
  • Node Size: 16 vCPU with 300GB storage, or 32 vCPU with 300GB storage

Create the required service instances and databases

After all services are installed, you must create:

  1. An instance of Db2 Data Management Console.

  2. An instance of Analytics Engine.

  3. The Data Refinery instance was already created in small. In order for all users to work concurrently, it must be changed to medium. From the Openshift console, open the DataRefinery custom resource named datarefinery-cr. In its YAML definition, change "scaleConfig: small" to "scaleConfig: medium" in the spec section.

  4. Once the Data Management Console instance is ready, create a Db2 Database named BLUDB. Use the default resource and storage sizes.