8.1 Installing IBM Cloud private and IBM FileNet P8 CPIT
For this section, the initial download, outline install, and configuration screenshots are covered by reference to the first book in this series, from the BPB Publications, Installation and Configuration of IBM Watson Analytics and StoredIQ – ISBN 978-93-90684-49-6, Chapter 8: IBM Cloud Private System and Chapter 10: IBM Cloud Private Cluster on CentOS 8.0. The ResearchGate free MSWord download document is also available for free download, using the link: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27358.18246 (IBM Cloud Private P8 Container CPIT Installation on RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.0).
This MSWord free download document describes the step-by-step installation of IBM Cloud Private including the set-up of the supporting RHEL 8.0 Linux OS and Docker system. It also describes the download and installation of the P8 Containers for IBM FileNet P8 Content Platform and the IBM Content Navigator Installed using CPIT (Not officially supported on RedHat Linux 8.0, but it works after a few edits to the shell script). The download and installation of the base system of RedHat RHEL 8.0 and Docker is covered step-by-step in pages 1 through 64 of the above documents.
The full screenshots for the IBM Cloud Private and IBM FileNet P8 install are covered in the above document reference from pages 65 through Page 105.
8.1.1 Installing IBM Private Cloud
IBM Cloud Private is now included as part of the IBM Software Cloud Paks, in IBM Cloud Pak for Applications, Limited Edition, Version 4.3.1. The following links contain useful installation examples for running this Kubernetes Container system with other Linux systems:
https://mybyways.com/blog/installing-ibm-cloud-private-in-virtualbox
Using Ubuntu Linux Server 18.10 at https://www.ubuntu.com/download/server
Using Ubuntu Linux Server16.04:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51510541/ibm-cloud-private-2-1-0-3-fails-with-waiting-for-mongodb-to-start-error
Response for issues with IBM Cloud Private:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ibm-cloud-private
IBM Cloud Private 3.2.x upgrade knowledge base:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-private/3.2.x?topic=SSBS6K_3.2.x/installing/upgrade_ce.htm
8.1.2 System requirements
For the detailed system requirements for IBM Cloud Private 3.2.0, see System requirements https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-private/3.2.x?topic=cluster-system-requirements in the IBM knowledge center.
8.1.3 Single node cluster hardware requirements
The hardware requirements we used are defined with minimum sizes as shown in Figure 8.1, as follows:
Figure 8.1: The requirements for a single node cluster
