Running the Cloud Pak in its own data centers

Traditionally, this has been the most common approach, even though the adoption of cloud-based and hybrid strategies is on the rise as organizations are shifting more and more to a cloud-based model. In this approach, the customer procures Cloud Pak, downloads it, and installs it onto their own hardware as part of the internal company network, where other systems are also available. Let’s explore in more detail what this entails.

Topologies

IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation offers several installation options as part of two patterns, starter and production. The starter configuration is mostly geared toward demonstration and sandbox types of environments, whereas the production one, as the name implies, lends itself to further development and then rolls out to production usage.

If you choose the starter configuration and leave all features selected as offered by default, after proceeding through the installation and configuration...