/refarch-privatecloud

This project provides guidance on how to deploy IBM Private Cloud

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IBM Cloud Private Reference Architecture

This project provides prescriptive guidance on how to efficiently deploy and operate IBM Cloud Private 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.

Architecture

Architecture

Planning ICP clusters

Sizing ICP

See the following page for recommended sizing of ICP environments: Sizing

Installing IBM Cloud Private

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:

Install ICP using TerraForm

Accessing IBM Cloud Private (ICP) through the CLI

Accessing ICp

Installing the Cloud Foundry Environment

Installing ICP Cloud Foundry on-prem

Hyper-V Recommendations

Recommendations for Dynamic Memory Allocation Settings in Hyper-V

High Availability and Resiliency

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.

Best practices

Storage

Storage Best Practices

See also the following article on working on storage in ICp: Working with Storage

Creating a Ceph instance and integrating it with ICP for dynamic storage provisioning

Security LDAP

Install OpenLDAP for ICP Integration

DevOps

DevOps Best Practices