Pre-Reqs

Published

February 19, 2025

IBM Entitlement Key

It’s important to note that you will need an IBM Entitlement Key to install the IBM Foundational Services as well as Guardium Insights.

This can be retrieved from here

Installing required cli tools

Windows Exec Path

If your environment is Windows, let’s set a path for some of these executables to run from:

Right click on the Windows badge at the lower left hand slide and select System

Scroll down and select Advanced system settings

Select Environment Variables

Under the env variables, select Path under System variables and hit Edit

Click New and let’s create a new directory under C: called Bin

Once that is saved, create the new directory under C:

C:\Bin is where we will drop some of our executables.

Package managers

Homebrew for MacOS

Install homebrew with the following command

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Install Gnu-Sed

MacOS and Linux use different versions of sed. Let’s install Gnu-Sed for Mac with Homebrew as it will make some commands easier.

brew install gnu-sed

Scoop for Windows

This installs the scoop package manager. This just makes it easier to install some of the pre-reqs in Windows.

Run the following commands in a powershell window one line at a time:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
iex "& {$(irm get.scoop.sh)} -RunAsAdmin"

Installing AWS CLI

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.pkg" -o "AWSCLIV2.pkg"

Install it with sudo (to use for all users)

sudo installer -pkg ./AWSCLIV2.pkg -target /
msiexec.exe /i https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.msi

Now let’s configure our client env

aws configure

Answer all the questions with the info you got for your account.

Installing helm

curl -fsSL -o get_helm.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/main/scripts/get-helm-3 | bash

To install helm to windows with scoop

scoop install helm

Installing kubectl

Install kubectl with

brew install kubectl

In a powershell window, download the kubectl binary from Amazon S3

curl.exe -OL https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/amazon-eks/1.30.2/2024-07-12/bin/windows/amd64/kubectl.exe

Copy the binary to C:\Bin

Installing eksctl

To install eksctl we’re going to use homebrew

brew tap weaveworks/tap

brew install weaveworks/tap/eksctl

In a powershell window:

scoop install eksctl

Verify the installation

eksctl info

eksctl version: 0.187.0
kubectl version: v1.30.2-eks-1552ad0
OS: windows

Installing Openshift CLI

Note

the oc cli is required to work with the IBM Cloud Pak plugin. This plugin is needed for part of the GI installation.

It also needs to be 4.10.x

We are installing 4.10.67

If /usr/local/bin doesn’t exist, create the directory path.

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin

Then download the oc tar gzip and install.

curl -fsSL -o openshift-client-mac.tar.gz https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/clients/ocp/4.10.67/openshift-client-mac.tar.gz
sudo tar -C /usr/local/bin -zxf openshift-client-mac.tar.gz oc

This should install client version 4.10.67 to /usr/local/bin.

Verify this with:

oc version --client
Client Version: 4.10.67

In a powershell window, download the openshift-cli tar gz.

curl.exe -OL https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/clients/ocp/4.10.67/openshift-client-windows.zip

Extract the zip file

Expand-Archive -LiteralPath 'C:\Users\Administrator\openshift-client-windows.zip' -DestinationPath 'C:\Bin'

Verify it works

oc version --client

Client Version: 4.10.67

Verify the installation in a powershell window

Installing oc-ibm_pak

oc-ibm_pak is a plugin for the oc cli for managing cloud-paks.

Download the plugin with curl. At this writing, version 1.15.1 is the most recent.

curl -L https://github.com/IBM/ibm-pak/releases/download/v1.15.1/oc-ibm_pak-darwin-amd64.tar.gz -o oc-ibm_pak-darwin-amd64.tar.gz

Extract and copy the plugin to /usr/local/bin

tar -zxf oc-ibm_pak-darwin-amd64.tar.gz
sudo cp oc-ibm_pak-darwin-amd64 /usr/local/bin/oc-ibm_pak

Verify the installation

oc ibm-pak --help

In a powershell window, download the plugin with curl.exe. At this writing, version 1.15.1 is the most recent.

curl.exe -OL https://github.com/IBM/ibm-pak/releases/download/v1.15.1/oc-ibm_pak-windows-amd64.tar.gz -o oc-ibm_pak-windows-amd64.tar.gz

Extract the plugin

tar -xvf oc-ibm_pak-windows-amd64.tar.gz

Copy the plugin to our exec path

Copy-Item oc-ibm_pak-windows-amd64 C:\Bin\oc-ibm_pak.exe

Verify the installation

oc ibm-pak --help

Installing the Operator-SDK

Install the operator-sdk with homebrew

brew install operator-sdk

Verify the installation

operator-sdk version

operator-sdk version: "v1.35.0", commit: "e95abdbd5ccb7ca0fd586e0c6f578e491b0a025b", kubernetes version: "v1.28.0", go version: "go1.21.11", GOOS: "darwin", GOARCH: "arm64"

Windows installation for the operator-sdk is a little more complicated…

Install golang

scoop install go

Downloading the case file

Retrieve the ibm-guardium-data-security-center case file. As of this writing the latest is 2.6.0.

wget https://github.com/IBM/cloud-pak/raw/master/repo/case/ibm-guardium-data-security-center/2.6.0/ibm-guardium-data-security-center-2.6.0.tgz

Extract the downloaded casefile in your directory

tar zxf ibm-guardium-data-security-center-2.6.0.tgz

This should create a directory called ibm-guardium-data-security-center

TBD