50. Operator Wizard Walkthrough
The Business Automation Operator contains an Operator Installer Console. This console gives you a wizard experience to deploy IBM Business Automation Open Edition 9.0 environments.
50.1 Wizard walk through
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Go the Business Automation Operator and click in Installer link.
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Login with Openshift. A page will show up asking for authorization. Select all options and click on "Allow selected permissions".
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Give the application the name
my-ibamoe-authoring
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Select the
rhpam-authoring
for the Enviroment. -
Check the Enable Upgrades checkbox.
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Scroll down and set the Username and Password to
bamAdmin
:ibmpam1
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Click the Next button.
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Don’t change any values in the Security section. Click on Next.
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Go through the Components section of the installer and observe the possible options. Don’t change any values for now.
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Keep clicking next until you reach the Confirmation screen and click Deploy.
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Go back to the OpenShift Console.
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Navigate to Workloads → Deployment Configs and observe that a new IBM Business Automation Open Edition 9.0 production environment has been deployed. Note that this environment has a PostgreSQL database deployed. Also note that both the Business Central and KIE-Server Deployment Configs have their ReplicationController set to 3 pods.
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Go back to the Operators → Installed Operators → Business Automation → KieApp.
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Delete the
my-rhpam-authoring
we’ve just deployed with the Installer.
50.2 How to KIE Server with more replicas
We will now deploy a new production environment using the installer, but this time we will configure our KIE-Server in the wizard and set the replications of the KIE-Server to 2 instead of 3.
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Go back to the Business Automation Operator, and open the Wizard.
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Create a new IBAMOE Production Environment. Continue until you reach the KIE Servers screen.
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Click Add new KIE Server and use the following configuration for your KIE-Server.
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Click through the rest of the screens until you can press the Deploy button to deploy the environment.
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Navigate to the Workloads → Deployment Configs screen to see your IBAMOE production environment, including the KIE-Server you configured.
50.3 Conclusion
This concludes the lab on the Business Automation Operator. If you have time left, feel free to explore more features of the operator.