This project provides prescriptive guidance on how to efficiently deploy and operate IBM Private Cloud platform in the enterprise. We document the practical approach of planning enterprise private cloud environment, setting up DevOps tool chains, achieving HA/DR, securing the platform and monitoring your private cloud. The project contains assets and best practices to help accelerating the private cloud adoption.
See the following page for recommended sizing of ICP environments: Sizing
IBM Cloud Private (ICP) supports 64-bit Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) and Linux on Power. We provided some guidance on installing ICP on following virtualization and cloud platforms:
- VMware:
- AWS: Installing ICP on AWS
- VirtualBox: Installing ICP on VirtualBox
- OpenStack: Installing ICP on OpenStack
- Terraform Module for provisioning ICP cluster: terraform-module-icp-deploy
- SoftLayer: Deploy ICP Cluster to SoftLayer
- VMware: Deploy ICP to VMware
Installing ICP Cloud Foundry on-prem
General High Availability Considerations
Federated ICP clusters
NOTE: This is an early experiential guide on how to federate multiple ICP clusters with the Kubernetes federation control plane utility. Not recommended for production usage.
Setup Highly Available ICP Cluster
Guide and best practice on install and configure a highly available ICP clusters with multiple master nodes, multiple proxy nodes and management nodes.
ICP HA/DR with backup on VMWare Guidance on how to take backup of ICP deployed on VMWare and restore the platform on a DR VMWare site.
See also the following article on working on storage in ICp: Working with Storage