Day 2 operations
Administrators of Cloud Pak for Data installations, including tenant administrators, can leverage utilities and best practices when it comes to the management of the Cloud Pak for Data platforms and services.
This section describes some of the operational considerations beyond just the initial installation, daily management activities, and monitoring.
Upgrades
With the adoption of the operator pattern, Cloud Pak for Data makes it possible for even individual tenant user to decide on their own an upgrade strategy that works for them. In certain cases, Cloud Pak for Data instances may be upgraded more frequently, even to the latest major release versions, such as with dev-test installations, whereas in other instances, such as production installations, there is frequently a need to stick to stable releases and only incremental changes (patches) may be tolerated.
In general, there are two distinct sets of components that you would need to consider from an...