Perhaps you have seen or heard one of the many comedy skits where a person walks into a specialty coffee shop and orders a coffee. They are then bombarded with a dozen questions - What kind of coffee? Hot or Iced? What size? What type of milk? ...and so on. They ultimately get overwhelmed and exclaim “just a coffee!”.
This comedy skit might play in some customers' minds when they are installing IBM Cloud Pak® for AIOps. Do you use Red Hat® OpenShift®? Can you install servers with RHCOS? Which storage provider do you use? Starter or production? All of these options are designed to give customers flexibility, but some customers “just want a coffee”.
In our 4.6.0 release (June 2024), we provide a technology preview of the option to install IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps on Linux®. This alternative to installing on Red Hat OpenShift uses logical defaults to provide a simple installation, without asking a lot of questions. Doing so allows customers to get started quickly, and focus on the value that IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps provides.
To get started, a customer needs a set of Linux servers. They can then install IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps by using a simple script that references their servers and uses their IBM Entitled Registry key to pull the software. In about an hour, IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps is installed and ready to analyze their data, detect and correlate issues, collect relevant context, and automate issue resolution.
This initial preview of installing IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps on Linux is intended for faster proof of concept deployments. Production hardening is slated for the second half of 2024.
The ultimate goal is to give customers the choice to install on a cloud platform, on Red Hat OpenShift, or on Linux, with the same features, functions, and capabilities!
For more information, see the [IBM Documentation](https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cloud-pak-aiops/4.6.0?topic=preview-installing-linux).