Quick Installation(v1)

This document describes installation steps for the version 1.X (old) operator. For installation steps of the new (version 2.X, alpha), see quick installation of the new operator.

Pre-requisites

Installing Open Data Hub requires OpenShift Container Platform version 4.10+. All screenshots and instructions are from OpenShift 4.10. For the purposes of this quick start, we used try.openshift.com on AWS. Tutorials will require an OpenShift cluster with a minimum of 16 CPUS and 32GB of memory across all OpenShift worker nodes.

Installing the Open Data Hub Operator

The Open Data Hub operator is available for deployment in the OpenShift OperatorHub as a Community Operator. You can install it from the OpenShift web console by following the steps below:

1. From the OpenShift web console, log in as a user with cluster-admin privileges. For a developer installation from try.openshift.com, the kubeadmin user will work.

2. Find Open Data Hub in the OperatorHub catalog.

   1. Under Operators, select OperatorHub for a list of operators available for deployment.
   2. Filter for Open Data Hub or look under AI/Machine Learning for the icon for Open Data Hub.

   

3. Click the Install button and follow the installation instructions to install the Open Data Hub operator.

4. The subscription creation view will offer a few options including Update Channel, keep the rolling channel selected. Click Install to deploy the opendatahub operator into the openshift-operators namespace.

5. Click View Operator to navigate to the OpenShift OperatorHub page for the newly install ODH operator.

6. To view the status of the Open Data Hub operator installation, find the Open Data Hub Operator under Operators -> Installed Operators. Once the STATUS field displays Succeeded, you can proceed to create a new Open Data Hub deployment.

7. Create a new namespace named odh for your installation of Open Data Hub.

8. Select the new odh namespace if not already selected.

Create a New Open Data Hub Deployment

The Open Data Hub operator will create new Open Data Hub deployments and manage its components. Let's create a new Open Data Hub deployment.

1. Find the Open Data Hub Operator under Installed Operators (inside the namespace you created earlier)

2. Click on the Open Data Hub Operator to bring up the details for the version that is currently installed.

3. Click Create Instance for KfDef to create a new deployment. The default kfdef provided will deploy the latest release of the ODH Core components. If you accepted the default name, this will trigger the creation of an Open Data Hub kfdef object named opendatahub and start the rollout of the ODH Core components.

4. Verify the installation by viewing the Open Data Hub tab within the operator details. You Should see opendatahub listed.

5. Verify the installation by viewing the project workload. The ODH Core components should be running.

   If you Create an Instance that is not underodh a fatal error similar to "csv created in namespace with multiple operatorgroups, can't pick one automatically" will be raised.

Open Data Hub Dashboard

The data scientists and other users will most likely use the Open Data Hub features through Open Data Hub Dashboard. Its URL can be found in Menu > Networking > Routes, Project odh, the Location colum of the odh-dashboard route.

Upgrade to new operator(version 2.X)

If you are currently having version 1.X installed and prefer upgrading to new operator 2.X, please follow below instruction:

• Login from the OpenShift web console with cluster-admin privileges
• Go to Operator -> Installed Operators, choose Open Data Hub Operator which is on 1.X version.
• Click Subscription tab
• In the Update channel section, you should see rolling as the current channel.

• Click pencil icon next to rolling, in the popup window Change Subscription update channel, tick fast icon, then Save your option.
• If you have Update approval already configed to Automatic, you should see Upgrade status change to 1 installing in minutes.
• The rest steps, please refer to here from step 5

disclaimer

1. Version 2.X represents an alpha release, exclusively accessible via the "fast" channel.

Subsequent releases will transition to the "rolling" channel once the new operator attains greater stability.

2. During the installation of the new operator (v2.X), applications will not be automatically updated from v1.X to v2.X.

Users will need to create a DataScienceCluster instance and enable specific components based on their requirements.

3. If the current application namespace for v1.X is not "opendatahub", users must scale down the components first.