Installing and running the Cloud Discovery Service as a container

You can install and run the Cloud Discovery Service as a container.

The Cloud Discovery Service container image is for the x86_64 platform.

  1. From the command line, change to the installation_directory/ibm-ucd-patterns-install/docker-install/containers folder.
  2. Copy the ibm-cloud-discovery-service-container-image-<version>.tar file, and move it to a machine that hosts a Docker engine.
  3. Log into the Docker engine machine as a user that belongs to the Docker group. Then, run this command: 
    docker load -i ibm-cloud-discovery-service-container-image-<version>.tar
  4. To verify that you have successfully uploaded the ibm-ucd-cloud-discovery-service container image, run this command: 
    docker images local/ibm-ucd-cloud-discovery-service
  5. To accept the license, run this command: 
    docker run -d -e LICENSE="accept" -p 7575:7575 local/ibm-ucd-cloud-discovery-service:<version_tag>
    Note: If you have a custom Cloud Discovery Service file, you can use the CLOUDDISCOVERYSERVICE_SETTINGS_FILE variable to specify the file mounted path. The file must be mounted to the container. For more information, see the Docker help, Use volumes.
  6. Log into the IBM® UrbanCode® Deploy blueprint designer.
  7. In the upper-right corner, click the Settings icon, and then click System Settings.
  8. In the General Settings section, update the Cloud Discovery Service URL field.
    Note: You must ensure that the IBM UrbanCode Deploy blueprint designer can access the exposed port of the machine that hosts the IBM UrbanCode Deploy Cloud Discovery Service.