Chapter 4. Installing the self-service automation portal Helm chart

Prerequisites

1. You have created a project for self-service automation portal in OpenShift Container Platform.
2. You have created a plugin registry in your project.
3. You have set up secrets for Ansible Automation Platform authentication and SCM authentication.

Procedure

1. In a browser, navigate to your OpenShift project for self-service automation portal that you created earlier.
2. Select the Developer view.
3. Click the Helm option in the OpenShift sidebar.
4. In the Helm page, click Create and select Helm Release.
5. Search for Portal in the Helm Charts filter, and select the Automation Portal chart.
6. In the modal dialog on the chart page, click Create.
7. Select the YAML view in the Create Helm Release page.

8. Locate the clusterRouterBase key in the YAML file and replace the placeholder value with the base URL of your OpenShift instance.

   The base URL is the URL portion of your OpenShift URL that follows https://console-openshift-console, for example apps.example.com:

     redhat-developer-hub
       global:
         clusterRouterBase: apps.example.com

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9. The Helm chart is set up for the Default Ansible Automation Platform organization.

   To update the Helm chart to use a different organization, update the value for the catalog.providers.rhaap.orgs key from Default to your Ansible Automation Platform organization name.

     catalog:
       providers:
         rhaap:
           production:
           # Replace 'Default' with the name of the organization you created
             orgs: '<your-org-name>'

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10. Click Create to launch the deployment.

1. In a browser, log in to your OpenShift instance.

2. In the Developer view, navigate to the Topology view for the namespace where you deployed the Helm chart.

   The deployment appears: the label on the icon is D. The name of the deployment is <installation-name>-backstage, for example <my-self-service-automation-portal-backstage>.

   While it is deploying, the icon is light blue. The color changes to dark blue when deployment is complete.