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Configuration-based installation of OpenShift and Cloud Pak for Data/Integration/Watson AIOps on various private and public cloud infrastructure providers. Deployment attempts to achieve the end-state defined in the configuration. If something fails along the way, you only need to restart the process to continue the deployment.
https://ibm.github.io/cloud-pak-deployer/
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Allow running Deployer on Power #591

Closed fketelaars closed 1 month ago

fketelaars commented 7 months ago

In CP4D 4.8, broader support for Power is available. Allow deployer to run on Power.

schabrolles commented 5 months ago

Hi Frank,

If I could help on this, don't hesitate. I quickly try to rebuild the container, but some product seems to be hardcoded to x86. helm and some other are available on ppc64le, but I have some difficulties with openjdk-9.

Can we use openjdk-8 or other version (11,17,21) which are supported and can be easily setup with yum/dnf ?

I can provide remote access to an openshift on Power if needed ;)

fketelaars commented 4 months ago

Hi @schabrolles I made some initial changes to remove the Dockerfile x86 dependencies. Java and helm are only needed for CP4BA, hence deployer now only installs them if CP4BA is seelcted. Additionally I have removed olm-utils (v1) image from the Dockerfile as there is no Power version of it.

I would appreciate if you can test the changes in the deployer-power branch on your cluster.

schabrolles commented 4 months ago

Hi @fketelaars

I make it work after some cleaning anf changes:

  1. in the Dockerfile:

    • Use a non-official valut port for Power (hashicorp doesn't provide them)
    • Add gcc and python devel to rebuild missing python dependencies during pip install
    • Workaround to build wheel due to some cython and PyYaml issues

  2. Fixing some hardcoded x86 binary download in shell script and Ansible

    • Create an ARCH variable (using uname -m) in order to automatically set the right arch when downloading files.

a container image is available here: quay.io/schabrolles/cloud-pak-deployer:latest

I've already tested it to deploy CP4D 4.8.3 with DB2 OLTP on Power, but we should share it with others for further testing.

fketelaars commented 4 months ago

Thanks @schabrolles , that is great news! Will pull in other resources who can test as well.