Getting Started
With Cloud Databases enabled by IBM Cloud Satellite, you can deploy Cloud Databases instances into a Satellite location. Cloud Databases enabled by IBM Cloud Satellite currently supports the following Cloud Databases managed database services:
After your Satellite location instance is deployed, Cloud Databases will install a Cloud Databases Satellite service cluster in your Satellite location into which your database instances will be deployed.
Your Cloud Databases service cluster can operate multiple database instances, even with different database types. For instance, you might operate a Databases for etcd and a Databases for PostgreSQL instance on the same service cluster.
The service cluster name is based on the first database instance, even if multiple instances exist. For example, if your service cluster has both a Databases for etcd and a Databases for PostgreSQL instance on the same service cluster, the name is based on your Databases for etcd instance.
Cloud Databases enabled by IBM Cloud Satellite supports Satellite locations on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and on-premises.
An Overview
Before you begin
Cloud Databases enabled by IBM Cloud Satellite does not yet provide the Security and Compliance integration, Activity Tracking, or Metrics Monitoring of a standard IBM Cloud® Databases deployment.
- Refer to the Satellite Usage requirements.
- Be sure you install and set up the IBM Cloud CLI, the plug-in for Satellite commands, and other related CLIs.
- If you did not create a Satellite location, see Setting up Satellite locations. Follow the steps in the Manually creating Satellite locations documentation.
- For the management location, choose Washington DC. If you are creating your Satellite location on AWS, adjust the host zones to AWS-default zone names, for example: us-east-1a, us-east-1b, us-east-1c.
As Cloud Databases enabled by IBM Cloud Satellite solely supports resource deployment in the us-east region, you must choose the Washington DC location when provisioning.
- Before Step 1, have your Satellite location set up properly and ensure that the Satellite control plane is up and running.