Installing the server in IBM Cloud Private

Install and set up kubectl

Install and set up the Helm CLI

Secret - A Kubernetes Secret object must be created to store the initial UrbanCode Deploy administrator password and the password used to access the database mentioned above. These passwords are retrieved during Helm chart installation. The secret must be named 'HelmReleaseName-secrets' where 'HelmReleaseName' is the release name you give when installing this Helm chart or you can create a secret with any name and pass the name as a Helm Chart parameter value.

The secret can be created either by using the Cluster Console or using the kubectl CLI.

Through the Cluster Console, create Secret objects in the target namespace.

Click the New Secret button

On the General tab: Enter the name of the secret object. For example: MyRelease-secrets.

Choose the namespace where the chart is to be installed.

On the Data tab: Enter dbpassword in the Name field.

Use your favorite base64 encoding tool to encode the database password and paste it into the Value field.

Click the Add data button and repeat for Name initpassword

Click the Create button.

Through the kubectl CLI, create a Secret object in the target namespace.

Generate the base64 encoded values for the initial UrbanCode Deploy admin password and database passwords.

Typically, your cluster administrator loads the PPA file into ICP using a CLI command (cloudctl catalog load-archive), that installs the Docker image and the Helm chart.

If your Kubernetes cluster does NOT support dynamic persistent volumes, you need to manually create and set up storage volumes in your cluster.

Use a ConfigMap to copy the JDBC files into the persistent volume.

This sample YAML file describes a ConfigMap resource with a shell script, named script.sh. The script performs a wget command to pull the MySQL.jar file from a web server and copy it to the ${UCD_HOME}/ext_lib/ directory in the container. In order for the image initialization code to find and execute the script, the script must be named script.sh.

kind: ConfigMap
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: user-script
data:
  script.sh: |
    #!/bin/bash
    echo "Running script.sh..."
    if [ ! -f ${UCD_HOME}/ext_lib/mysql-jdbc.jar ] ; then
      which wget
      if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
        apt-get update -y
        echo "Installing wget..."
        apt-get install wget -y
      fi
      echo "Copying file(s)..."    
      wget http://hostname/ucd-extlib/mysql-jdbc.jar
      mv mysql-jdbc.jar ${UCD_HOME}/ext_lib/
      echo "Done copying."
    else
      echo "File ${UCD_HOME}/ext_lib/mysql-jdbc.jar already exists."
    fi

To create your own ConfigMap, make a copy using the copy icon provided, place the content in a file called userscript.yaml and run the following command:

kubectl apply -f user-script.yaml