Flight Landing Log
Objective
Deploy Filenet on customer-owned AWS EKS infrastructure for use in growth opportunity to transition to AWS Gov Cloud, and provide customer with hands-on experience and education on Kubernetes and deploying containerized applications on AWS
Milestones
Completed
- Determine Deployment Size based on Filenet PoC Hardware Requirements
- Provision AWS Cluster
- Prepare AWS account
- Install command line tools
- Stage FileNet images
- Deploy EKS Cluster
- Install OpenLDAP
- Deploy the Database
- Deploy the FNCM Operator
- Enable and Demonstrate Content Search Services
- Educate customer on Kubernetes and AWS
Decisions and Action Items (DAI)
- Optional RDS Configuration
- Process Documented, customer may proceed as needed
- Discuss and demonstrate Content Replication
- Documented and Handed-off to CSM team
- Walk through GraphQL use cases
- Documented and Handed-off to CSM team
- Customer load-balancer decision
- Load-balancer and PKI configuration to be determined by the customer
- Affected components:
- Standalone Process Designer Setup
- Creation of Workflows
- IBM Enterprise Records Support
- Tickets were raised with the product team, long-term enhancement request to support IER on AWS
- Handed-off to CSM team to follow-up
Lessons learned
- Namespace Deletion: Stuck in Terminating State
- Proceeded with Manual Deletion Documentation to remove the finalizer
- This IBM Documentation pertains to IBM Cloud Private but is applicable to all clusters including AWS
- Documentation Feedback
- Documentation to be more generalized, clear and applicable to other customers
- ECR Tag directory paths, folder structure tags unavailable
- Lack of IER Support
- Not officially supported on AWS by IBM