description = "Get Kubeflow running on IBM Cloud Private"
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This guide is a quick start to deploy Kubeflow on [IBM Cloud Private](https://www.ibm.com/cloud/private) 3.1.0 or later. IBM Cloud Private is an enterprise PaaS layer for developing and managing on-premises, containerized applications. It is an integrated environment for managing containers that includes the container orchestrator Kubernetes, a private image registry, a management console, and monitoring frameworks.
### Prerequisites
- Get the system requirements from [IBM Knowledge Center](https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSBS6K_3.1.0/supported_system_config/hardware_reqs.html) for IBM Cloud Private.
- Setup NFS Server and export one or more path for persistent volume.
### Installing IBM Cloud Private
Following [installation steps in IBM Knowledge Center](https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSBS6K_3.1.0/installing/install.html) to install IBM Cloud Private 3.1.0 or later with master, proxy, worker, and optional management and vulnerability advisory nodes in your cluster in standard or high availability configurations.
The guide takes IBM Cloud Private 3.1.0 as example below. You can check the IBM Cloud Private after installation.
2. Create persistent volume (PV) for Kubeflow components.
Some Kubeflow components need PVs to storage data, such as minio, mysql katib. We need to create PVs for those pods in advance.
The PVs defination file (`pv.yaml`) is as following:
```yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: kubeflow-pv1
spec:
capacity:
storage: 20Gi
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
nfs:
path: ${NFS_SHARED_DIR}/pv1
server: ${NFS_SERVER_IP}
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: kubeflow-pv2
spec:
capacity:
storage: 20Gi
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
nfs:
path: ${NFS_SHARED_DIR}/pv2
server: ${NFS_SERVER_IP}
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: kubeflow-pv3
spec:
capacity:
storage: 20Gi
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
nfs:
path: ${NFS_SHARED_DIR}/pv3
server: ${NFS_SERVER_IP}
```
* **NFS_SERVER_IP** is the NFS server IP, that can be management node IP but need management node need to support NFS mounting.
* **NFS_SHARED_DIR** is the NFS shared path that can be mounted by othe nodes in IBM Cloud Private cluster. And ensure the sub-folders(`pv1, pv2,pv3`) in defination above are created.
Create PV by running below command:
```bash
kubectl create -f pv.yaml
```
### Installing Kubeflow
Follow these steps to deploy Kubeflow:
1. Download a `kfctl` v0.5.0 or later release from the [Kubeflow releases page](https://github.com/kubeflow/kubeflow/releases/).
2. Unpack the tar ball:
```bash
tar -xvf kfctl_<release tag>_<platform>.tar.gz
```
3. Run the following commands to set up and deploy Kubeflow. The code below
includes an optional command to add the binary `kfctl` to your path. If you don't add the binary to your path, you must use the full path to the `kfctl`
binary each time you run it.
```bash
# The following command is optional, to make kfctl binary easier to use.
export PATH=$PATH:<path to kfctl in your Kubeflow installation>
export KFAPP=<your choice of application directory name>
# Default uses IAP.
kfctl init ${KFAPP}
cd ${KFAPP}
kfctl generate all -V
kfctl apply all -V
```
***${KFAPP}** - the _name_ of a directory where you want Kubeflow
configurations to be stored. This directory is created when you run
`kfctl init`. If you want a custom deployment name, specify that name here.
The value of this variable becomes the name of your deployment.
The value of this variable cannot be greater than 25 characters. It must
contain just the directory name, not the full path to the directory.
The content of this directory is described in the next section.
1. Check the resources deployed in namespace `kubeflow`:
```bash
kubectl -n kubeflow get all
```
## Access Kubeflow dashboard
Change the Ambassador service type to NodePort, then access the Kubeflow dashboard throgh Ambassador.
```bash
kubectl -n kubeflow patch service ambassador -p'{"spec":{"type": "NodePort"}}'
AMBASSADOR_PORT=$(kubectl -n kubeflow get service ambassador -ojsonpath='{.spec.ports[?(@.name=="ambassador")].nodePort}')
```
Then you will find the NodePort and access the Kubeflow dashboard by NodePort.
```
http://${MANAGEMENT_IP}:$AMBASSADOR_PORT/
```
***MANAGEMENT_IP** is management node IP.
***AMBASSADOR_PORT** is the ambassador port.
## Delete Kubeflow
Run the following commands to delete your deployment and reclaim all resources:
```bash
cd${KFAPP}
# If you want to delete all the resources, including storage.
kfctl delete all --delete_storage
# If you want to preserve storage, which contains metadata and information
