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IBM/cloud-pak-deployer

Configuration-based installation of OpenShift and Cloud Pak for Data/Integration/Watson AIOps/Business Automation on various private and public cloud infrastructure providers. Deployment attempts to achieve the end-state defined in the configuration. If something fails along the way, you only need to restart the process to continue the deployment.

Is IBM/cloud-pak-deployer beginner-friendly?

The maintainers of IBM/cloud-pak-deployer usually reply to a pull request within 1 day. 3 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

Stars
163
Forks
82
Open beginner issues
3
Indexed issues
42
Avg merge
6m
Merged PRs (30d)
12
Dominant language
Jinja
License
Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push
Oct 18, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 17, 2026
Contributing guide
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
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How to contribute to IBM/cloud-pak-deployer

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. It ships a Dockerfile or Docker Compose file, so you can run it without installing its whole toolchain.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
  4. Pick one of the 3 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • OpenPages instance missing in sample config
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 78/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#1205 ·

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  • 🔒 [IBM OSPO Security Notification] — IBM/cloud-pak-deployer
    Open
    security

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#1194 · 6 comments ·

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  • apply-entitlement fails on subsequent runs
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#1161 ·

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  • Mirror images only for the current processor architecture
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#1160 ·

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  • Mirror images: copy images-mapping.txt to status directory
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#1159 ·

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  • json_query(query) throws warning in Ansible
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#1152 ·

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  • Does not run with docker
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#1143 ·

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  • Reset keycloak admin password after initial installation
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#1139 ·

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  • Hide passwords in log
    May be free again @luigimolinaro claimed this 129 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#1121 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Modern UI for Cloud Pak Deployment with IBM Carbon Design System
    May be free again @sametkilictas claimed this 189 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement in progress

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#1112 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Refactor CLI Menu Structure in cp-deploy.sh
    May be free again @luigimolinaro claimed this 230 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#1094 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Implement Online Entitlement Validation for cp.icr.io Images Before Deployment
    May be free again @luigimolinaro claimed this 240 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#1085 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Refactor deployer code
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#1026 ·

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  • Add steps to fix NooBaa OOM issue
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#1014 ·

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  • CP4BA Version Control
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#1008 · 3 comments ·

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  • add support for ROSA-HCP
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#993 · 1 comment ·

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  • Generic option to detect if the MCO is present
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#987 · 1 comment ·

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  • Execution stuck on Azure ARO installation
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#970 ·

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  • Install "Cert Utils Operator" using Deployer
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#953 · 1 comment ·

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  • Support for MIG configuration
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#923 · 1 comment ·

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  • WA does not provision when backingstore is underpinned by PVC
    May be free again @fketelaars claimed this 616 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#907 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Add support ROSA HCP
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#843 ·

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  • Add Remote Data Plane installation in cp-deploy and Remote Data Stage Engine
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#787 ·

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  • Upgrade CP4D service instances after upgrade
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#740 ·

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  • Add permission to create Gitea repositories from the command line
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#729 ·

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  • AWS S3 Bucket created with public access
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#642 ·

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  • Unified Installation Progress Log
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#576 ·

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  • Deployer fails to deploy during ROKS on IBM Cloud with NFS Storage
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#546 · 1 comment ·

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  • Config sample for install in existent single node OpenShift cluster (SNO) using ODS as storage
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#531 · 2 comments ·

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  • universal_password must be specified at install
    May be free again @jandusek4 claimed this 765 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#490 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Support self-signed certificates to use deployer behind a proxy that does SSL inspections
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#474 · 2 reactions ·

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  • Support Deployments based on Labeling of Worker Nodes
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#449 · 1 comment ·

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  • Use k8s Ansible role for CP4D
    May be free again @aishwaryapradeep01 claimed this 1247 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#439 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Deploy IBM bob using deployer
    Possibly taken @thomas-mattsson claimed this 14 days ago. Open

    IBM/cloud-pak-deployer#1195 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · 1 assignee ·

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