KNIME Business Hub on AWS Marketplace

If you are looking for detailed explanations around the additional configuration options for KNIME Business Hub, you can check the KNIME Business Hub Admin Guide.

If you are looking to install KNIME Business Hub, you should first consult the KNIME Business Hub Installation Guide.

For guides on connecting to KNIME Business Hub from KNIME Analytics Platform, please refer to the KNIME Business Hub User Guide.

The costs of running a KNIME Business Hub instance will vary depending on a number of factors. These include the desired workflow execution performance, the amount of data that is planned to be stored, the backup strategy, and planned failover setup. Your KNIME customer care representative would be happy to offer you advice and guidance on how those choices will affect your setup. Below we provide some information on typical setups to give some idea of pricing.

To deploy a KNIME Business Hub AMI, the user will be required to have the IAM roles/policies that allow access to launch EC2 instances and manage EBS volumes. Further rights may be needed to create security groups and VPCs if they are not already created. The application does not require the use of AWS account root privileges.

KNIME AMIs do not generate any IAM roles and policies for KNIME Business Hub nor do they grant public access to any resources. Users can generate the IAM role for the EC2 instance of KNIME Business Hub with necessary access based on their use cases (e.g. S3 access, Redshift access, …).

It is assumed that a VPC with an internet gateway is configured and available. For additional information on networking requirements, refer to the Networking prerequisites section of the installation guide.

All KNIME Business Hub Marketplace offerings are composed of a Kubernetes cluster initiated and contained on a single machine in a single subnet of a VPC. Use of an elastic IP is preferred for this initial machine since it simplifies the update/upgrade procedure. For more information on how to link other compute resources to a Kubernetes cluster, refer to the Kubernetes documentation.

An SSH key for access to the KNIME Business Hub instance is created or chosen via the AWS Management Console or CLI at instance launch. The admin is responsible for managing this key as per the recommendations set within their organization.

Deployment of the solution does not require creation or management of any stored secrets.

From the EC2 dashboard, click on Launch Instance. This will open the instance configuration process:

After you have successfully provisioned the KNIME Business Hub AMI instance, you will need to connect to the Admin Console to configure the remaining setup of the KNIME Business Hub software.

To access and login to the Business Hub admin console, you will need the following:

You can find both of these items on the EC2 instance summary page for said instance. You can select the icon next to these fields to copy their value and paste them where needed.

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Once you’ve obtained the IP address and the instance ID from the AWS console, open a new browser tab using the URL: <public-ip-address>:8800. Note that it will take several minutes (5-10) for the Admin Console to be available. When you connect to the Admin Console, you should see the following screen. Enter the EC2 instance ID as the password and click the Log in button.

If you have provisioned the KNIME Business Hub - BYOL Edition, you will be asked to provide a YAML license for activation of the software. If you do not have this license and would like to obtain one, please contact KNIME Customer Care.

For more information, see the KNIME Business Hub Installation Guide.

After logging into the Admin Console, the Configuration page will be displayed. You can scroll through the page to complete the required configuration tasks. When you have finished all configuration tasks, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the “Next” button.

For a more detailed description of all the configuration options, refer to the Configure the installation section of the KNIME Business Hub Installation Guide.

When all of the configuration tasks have been completed, you are ready to deploy the KNIME Business Hub. Scroll to the bottom of the configuration page and click on the Next button. Once clicked, the Admin Console will wait for the configuration to be stored. Once this is complete, a set of pre-flight checks will be initiated and the console will display the pre-flight check page. Ensure all the pre-flight checks have completed successfully. Scroll to the bottom of the pre-flight check page and click the Deploy button. The deployment of KNIME Business Hub will be initiated and the home page of the Admin Console will be displayed. The deployment of KNIME Business Hub generally takes 10-15 minutes. The Admin Console will display the version of KNIME Business Hub and a spinner indicating the deployment is in progress. Once the deployment has completed, you will be able to connect to your KNIME Business Hub instance.

Open a new browser tab and connect to your KNIME Business Hub instance using the URL you configured earlier. You will be prompted to provide credentials to complete the login process. Use the Hub Admin username and password that was configured. You will be logged in as the Hub Admin and can begin using your KNIME Business Hub.

To get started, refer to the KNIME Business Hub Admin Guide.

The Business Hub Admin Console is used to update KNIME Business Hub to a new version. To do so, you will access the Business Hub Admin Console as described previously. Once connected, follow the update instructions in the ttps://docs.knime.com/latest/business_hub_update_guide/index.html#update_bh[KNIME Business Hub Update Guide]. For system-level updates of the EC2 instance, you will need to SSH into the instance. Refer to the Connect to your Linux instance using SSH AWS documentation.

To check on the health of the KNIME Business Hub system, connect to the Admin Console where you will find overall system health info.

For information on how to run backup and restorations within the Business Hub Admin Console, refer to the Backup and restore with Velero Snapshots and Kotsadm section of the KNIME Business Hub Admin Guide.

For extra protection, you can also create https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/backup-recovery/ec2-backup.html [EC2 instance snapshots] and/or EBS data volume snapshots for backups and recovery.

Please refer to the Update your KNIME Business Hub license section of the KNIME Business Hub Installation Guide.