Make the deployment easier, get the most from Workload Automation in OpenShift
Can you have your desired number of Workload Automation (WA) agent, server and console instances running whenever and wherever? Yes, you can! Starting from the Workload Automation version 9.5 fix pack 2, you can deploy the server, console and dynamic agent by using Openshift 4.2 or later version platforms. This kind of deployment makes Workload Automation topology implementation 10x faster and 10x more scalable compared to the same deployment in the on-prem classical platform. Workload Automation provides you an effortless way to create, update and maintain both the installed WA operator instance and WA component instances by leveraging also the Operators feature introduced by Red Hat starting from OCP 4.1 version. In this blog, we address the following use cases by using the new deployment method: Download and Install WA operator and WA component images Scheduling - Scale UP and DOWN the WA instances number Monitoring WA resources to improve Quality of Service by using OCP dashboard console Download and Install WA operator and WA components images WA operator and pod instances prerequisites Before starting the WA deployment, ensure your environment meets the required prerequisites. For more information, see https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSPN_9.5.0/com.ibm.tivoli.itws.doc_9.5/README_OpenShift.html Download WA operator and components images Download the Workload Automation Operator and product component images from the appropriate web site. Once deployed, the Operator can be used to install the Workload Automation components and manage the deployment thereafter. The following are the available packages: Flexera (HCL version): 9.5.0-HCL-IWS_OpenShift_Server_UI_Agent_FP0002.zip containing the images for all HCL components. Download this package to install either all or select components (agent, server, console). 9.5.0-HCL-IWS_OpenShift_Agent_FP0002 containing the HCL agent image Fixcentral (IBM version) 9.5.0-IBM-IWS_OpenShift_Server_UI_Agent_FP0002.zip containing the images for all IBM components. Download this package to install either all or select components (agent, server, console). 9.5.0-IBM-IWS_OpenShift_Agent_FP0002 containing the IBM agent image Each operator package has the following structure (keep...