Deployment values

When you install the WebSphere products, select the parameter values for deployment.

Parameters for Passport Advantage entitlement

ibm_id: This offer is Bring Your Own License (BYOL). To deploy this offer, you must enter your registered IBMid and your IBMid must have active WebSphere entitlements that are associated with it. You can check your entitlements at Passport Advantage Online for customers.
ibm_id_password: IBMid password.

Parameters for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) setup

Region: The region and zone where the VPC is created, such as us-south-1 or us-east-2. For the latest list of IBM Cloud regions, see the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) documentation.
vpc_name: The unique name for this VPC. The name must start with a lowercase letter, use only lowercase alphanumeric characters and hyphens (without spaces), and cannot end with a hyphen. This offer creates a (VPC) and one or more virtual server instances (VSIs) where WebSphere is installed.
vpc_sshkey_name: The name of the SSH key in your IBM Cloud account. Use this key to SSH log in to VSIs. Make sure that the SSH key exists in the same region where the VPC is created.

Required parameters for WebSphere Application Server

deploy_was_topology: The topology to install. Specify a supported topology, WAS.Base or WAS.Cell.
vsi_os_admin_password: The password for vsi_os_admin_name to log in to a VSI. The password must have 12 or more characters and must contain only letters, numbers, and the -_=?.@#% special characters.
vsi_websphere_admin_password: The password for vsi_websphere_admin_name to log in to the administrative console and VSI. The password must have 12 or more characters and must contain only letters, numbers, and the -_=?.@#% special characters.

Optional parameters for WebSphere Application Server

base_vsi_profile: The instance profile for the WAS base VSI in a WAS.Base topology. The default is cx2-2x4. See available profiles and pricing.
cell_dmgr_vsi_profile: The instance profile for the DMgr VSI in a WAS.Cell topology. The default is cx2-2x4. See available profiles and pricing.
cell_ihs_setup_vsi: When set to true, sets up the IBM HTTP Server VSI in a WAS.Cell topology. The default is true. Only applicable when deploy_was_topology is WAS.Cell.
cell_ihs_vsi_profile: The instance profile for the IBM HTTP Server VSI in a WAS.Cell topology. The default is cx2-2x4. See available profiles and pricing. Only applicable when deploy_was_topology is WAS.Cell.
cell_node_count: The number of custom nodes you want to provision for WAS.Cell, which must be between 1 and 20 (inclusive). This parameter is ignored for WAS.Base.
cell_node_vsi_profile: The instance profile for custom node VSIs in a WAS.Cell topology. The default is cx2-2x4. See available profiles and pricing. Only applicable when deploy_was_topology is WAS.Cell.
vsi_os_admin_name: The VSI Administrator username that is used to log in to VSI. The value must be 1-30 characters long and must contain letters and numbers only. The value must not contain virtuser or wsadmin. The default is virtuser.
vsi_websphere_admin_name: The WebSphere Administrator username that is used to log in to the administrative console and VSI. The value must be 1-30 characters long and must contain letters and numbers only. The value must not contain virtuser or wsadmin. The default is wsadmin.

Other parameters

verbose: When set to true, specifies to log debug information. The default is true.