IBM Private cloud

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.

Architecture

Sizing ICP

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

Installing IBM Cloud Private

Installing the Kubernetes Environment

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:
- Installing ICP with Ubuntu
- Installing ICP with RedHat Enterprise
AWS: Installing ICP on AWS
VirtualBox: Installing ICP on VirtualBox
OpenStack: Installing ICP on OpenStack

Deployment using TerraForm

Terraform Module for provisioning ICP cluster: terraform-module-icp-deploy
SoftLayer: Deploy ICP Cluster to SoftLayer
VMware: Deploy ICP to VMware

Accessing IBM Cloud Private (ICP) through the CLI

Accessing ICp

Installing the Cloud Foundry Environment

Installing ICP Cloud Foundry on-prem

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.