Create Cloud Pak for Data on Azure
Cloud Pak for Data uses Azure services and features, including VNets, Availability Zones, Availability Sets, security groups, Managed Disks, and Azure Load Balancers to build a reliable and scalable cloud platform.
The link in the References section provides a template that deploys an Openshift cluster on Azure with all the required resources, infrastructure and then deploys IBM Cloud Pak for Data along with the add-ons that user chooses.
The deployment guide on GitHub provides step-by-step instructions for deploying IBM Cloud Pak for Data on a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 cluster on Azure. With this template, you can automatically deploy a multi-master, production instance of Cloud Pak for Data.
Prerequisites
You will need:
- Access to Azure with Contributor and User Access Administrator permissions to run the template to create a Service Principal on the resource group that you will also need to create.
Notes
You may add parameters to azuredeployp.parameters.json to specify additional parameters. The following are defaults in azuredeploy.jsonare:
| Default value | |
|---|---|
masterInstanceCount |
3 |
workerInstanceCount |
3 |
masterVmSize |
Standard_D8s_v3 |
workerVmSize |
Standard_D16s_v3 |
dataDiskSize |
1024 |
If you choose Portworx as your storage class, see Portworx documentation for generating portworx spec url.