Before you begin
Complete the following steps to install and configure
IBM Cloud
Private V2.1, as described in the
IBM Cloud Private documentation:
- Install IBM Cloud
Private V2.1. If it
is already installed, ensure sure that the Kubectl command line interface
(CLI) is also installed, so that you can target any Kubernetes cloud
that you require. For information about how to install the Kubectl
CLI, see the topic
Accessing your IBM Cloud Private
cluster by using the kubectl CLI in the IBM Cloud
Private documentation.
- Install the IBM Cloud Private CLI and log in to your cluster.
- Configure authentication from your computer to the Docker private
registry host and log in to the private registry.
- If you are not a root user, ensure that your account is part of
the docker group.
About this task
This topic describes how to deploy IBM App Connect
Enterprise (Advanced Edition) to IBM Cloud
Private, by using Helm Charts. Alternatively,
you can choose to deploy IBM App Connect
Enterprise for
Developers,
by following the instructions in Deploying IBM App Connect Enterprise for Developers to IBM Cloud Private.
Procedure
Complete the following steps to deploy IBM App Connect
Enterprise (Advanced Edition) to IBM Cloud
Private:
- Obtain the IBM App Connect
Enterprise compressed
file from
IBM Passport Advantage.
- Log in to your cluster from the IBM Cloud
Private CLI and log in to the Docker
private image registry, as shown in the following command:
bx pr login -a https://cluster_CA_domain:8443 --skip-ssl-validation
docker login cluster_CA_domain:8500
where cluster_CA_domain is
the certificate authority (CA) domain. If you did not specify a CA
domain, the default value is mycluster.icp.
- Install the IBM App Connect
Enterprise compressed
file from Passport Advantage, by entering the following command:
bx pr load-ppa-archive --archive compressed_file_name [--clustername cluster_CA_domain] [--namespace namespace]
where compressed_file_name is
the name of the file that you downloaded from Passport Advantage, cluster_CA_domain is
the (CA) domain, and namespace is the Docker namespace
that hosts the Docker image.
- Manually sync the repositories, so that the installed chart
appears in the Catalog:
- From the menu in the IBM Cloud
Private dashboard, select .
- Click Sync repositories and then
select OK.
- When it has completed, the ibm-ace-prod chart
is displayed in the Catalog.
- You can install and configure the IBM App Connect
Enterprise chart from the IBM Cloud
Private Catalog, or you can use the
command line to access the Helm Charts directly from
https://github.com/IBM/charts.
The following steps show how to access and install the chart by using
the Catalog: - From the menu in the IBM Cloud
Private dashboard,
select .
- Select the ibm-ace-prod chart
and then click Configure.
- A configuration page for your new IBM App Connect
Enterprise service is displayed.
- Configure your IBM App Connect
Enterprise service,
by setting values for the following properties:
- Set the Release name property
to the name of your new service.
- Accept the license by ticking the box.
- Click Install.
For more information about the IBM App Connect
Enterprise Helm
Chart, see
ot4i/ace-helm.
- You are now ready to start using IBM App Connect
Enterprise.