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Digital Experience on containerized platforms
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HCL Digital Experience 9.5 [Legacy content]
- Overview
  HCL Digital Experience provides a single access point to web content and applications, while it delivers differentiated, personalized experiences for each user across multiple touchpoints, such as web, mobile, hybrid mobile/web applications, and more.
- Supported migration paths
  Migration is supported between equivalent HCL Digital Experience offerings.
- Supported installation and upgrade paths
  Installation and upgrade is supported between equivalent HCL Digital Experience offerings.
- Getting the software
  New and existing users need to register at the HCL Software License Portal and download their entitled HCL Digital Experience package(s).
- Creating your website
  Review the following topics to understand how to create your website using the latest HCL Digital Experience.
- Installing HCL Digital Experience
  Review the planning information on HCL Digital Experience, then select your operating system and installation pattern that most reflects your business needs.
- Configuring
  Run the following tasks after you install and deploy HCL Digital Experience. They address tasks that are typically run one time and have a global effect. Some configuration changes are made more frequently or do not have a global effect. These tasks are addressed in the Administering section.
- Backup and restore
  Backup and recovery of data files and databases is an essential operation for any business system, particularly for data and applications that run in production environments. Create and follow a plan for backing up and recovering data on all tiers of your HCL Digital Experience deployment. IBM Installation Manager must also be included in backup and recovery planning. If you back up the HCL Portal file structure and then install a fix pack, your HCL Digital Experience and IBM Installation Manager become out of sync after you restore the HCL Portal file system. This condition is not recoverable.
- Migrating
  Successful migration requires significant planning and preparation, understanding the tools that are involved, and careful execution of the appropriate steps in the order provided.
- Integrating
  Integrate HCL Digital Experience with software such as HCL Sametime to enable your users to collaborate more easily. You can also use the unified task list portlet to integrate HCL with your backend business process software, such as IBM Process Server.
- Administering
  Use the administration tools that are provided with the HCL Digital Experience to do various day-to-day administration tasks.
- Securing
  Security tasks include setting up property extension databases and custom user repositories, configuring and activating SSL, and configuring authentication. In addition, tasks such as activating Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) and NIST SP800-131a security modules and configuring external security managers such as Security Access Manager might be required to secure your portal environment.
- Monitoring
  HCL Portal includes tools and features to help you monitor the portal site.
- Setting up a website
  Setting up a website includes, creating pages, adding navigation, setting up search, and adding content to the site. Themes are used to customize the portal's look-and-feel. Out-of-the-box templates and the site wizard can help you set up your portal site faster. You can add wikis and blogs to your site and let users tag and rate content on your site.
- Staging to production
  During portal solution development, the solution is initially developed, tested, and refined on one server or a limited number of servers. The solution is deployed later on live systems, referred to as the production environment. The process of moving the solution from the development environment to the production environment is called staging.
- Developing
  This section includes developer documentation on extending applications and development assets for HCL Portal and HCL Web Content Manager.
- Docker and Containerization
  Find topic information about Docker and Containerization for HCL Digital Experience.
  - Docker overview
    HCL Digital Experience 9.5 supports deployments on Docker and popular Kubernetes platforms. Learn more about the latest list of container images and supported deployment platforms.
  - Containerization
    Learn more about HCL Digital Experience 9.5 Containerization and Deployment.
    - Containerization overview
      Learn more about the containerization architecture, including the supported container platforms in deploying HCL Digital Experience images for your environment.
    - Requirements and limitations
      This section describes the requirements to deploy the HCL Digital Experience 9.5 images to container platforms and current limitations.
    - DX Kubernetes support matrix
    - Digital Experience on containerized platforms
      Learn how to deploy HCL Digital Experience as a cloud-native platform and optimize business-critical digital experiences for your customers.
      - Docker image list
      - dxctl
        Learn how to use dxctl for custom HCL Digital Experience 9.5 container deployments
      - Helm-based deployment
      - Red Hat OpenShift
        Learn how to deploy HCL Digital Experience (DX) 9.5 to Red Hat OpenShift platform.
      - Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
        Learn how to deploy, find, understand, and customize the different releases of HCL Digital Experience 9.5 containers, along with Ambassador to Kubernetes, as verified in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).
      - Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
        Learn how to deploy HCL Digital Experience (DX) 9.5 CF182 and later container release along with Ambassador to Kubernetes, as verified in Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
      - Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
        Learn how to deploy different releases of HCL Digital Experience (DX) containers, along with the Ambassador, to Kubernetes as verified in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
      - Install Experience API, Content Composer, and Digital Asset Management
        This section provides a high-level overview of the architecture and the steps to install, configure, and update the HCL Digital Experience 9.5 components: Experience API, Content Composer, and Digital Asset Management.
      - Docker and Container initialization performance
        Beginning with from HCL Digital Experience 9.5 Container Update CF192 release, container DX applications initialization performance is improved. Review the following guidance for information, defaults, and options to manage container applications initialization performance when deployed to Docker, Red Hat OpenShift, and Kubernetes platforms.
      - Customizing your container deployment
        This section outlines the customization options when deploying HCL Digital Experience Container.
      - Container administration
        The information in this section enables administrators to manage select operations performance controls, and to update and replace their HCL Digital Experience 9.5 container images with the latest 9.5 container update release.
      - Digital Experience application deployment
        This section outlines features and functionality delivered as part of continuous integration and continuous delivery for HCL Digital Experience.
      - Troubleshooting cloud container
        This section lists the basics of troubleshooting the containerized image or your deployment.
    - Hybrid Deployment
- Practitioner Studio
  Practitioner Studio is a newly designed user experience for HCL Digital Experience. Please see the following pages to understand how the new navigation is organized.
- HCL Experience API
  This shows developers how to provision, configure, and use the HCL Experience API with the HCL Digital Experience 9.5 platform.
- HCL Content Composer
  The HCL Content Composer delivers simplified processes for creating and managing Digital Experience site content.
- HCL Digital Asset Management
  HCL Digital Asset Management (DAM) adds a central platform to store and include rich media assets in Digital Experience site content to present engaging, consistently branded experiences across digital channels.
- The Woodburn Studio demo site
  The Woodburn Studio is a website that demonstrates the use of some of the popular HCL Digital Experience features.
- Reference
  View information that can help you use our product documentation including terms of use, trademarks, and more.

Digital Experience on containerized platforms

Learn how to deploy HCL Digital Experience as a cloud-native platform and optimize business-critical digital experiences for your customers.

The Kubernetes container orchestration platform allows orchestration features for the automated deployment, coordination, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Originally designed by Google, now governed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and developed by Google, Red Hat, and many others, Kubernetes is now widely used by organizations of various sizes to run containers in a cloud environment.

Note: As of May 2022, please visit this HCL DX Help Center location to access HCL DX 9.5 topics related to Digital Experience 9.5 deployments to Kubernetes container platforms.

HCL Digital Experience 9.5 on Kubernetes Platforms - Overview