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Cloud Platform Onboarding

Cloud Platform Onboarding

Discover how to set up your cloud environment with our Cloud Platform Onboarding module.

1 hour

Welcome to Informatica Cloud Data Integration (CDI) Onboarding. This course collection helps CDI users like you seamlessly start your cloud journey. We’ve divided this course logically into 4 weeks to get you started. Each section is a continuation of the previous one.

At the end of this module, you will be able to successfully:

Deploy a Secure Agent
Create Connections
Run a few jobs

Note: Although the course has been divided into 4 weeks, feel free to complete it sooner (it does not take more than an hour!)

Your Cloud Journey Begins here...

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Summary

Week 1

Know Your Org (16 min)

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Where is my IICS org located?

HOW TO: Find Org ID and POD in Informatica Cloud (IICS)

This article explains how to find Org ID and POD in Informatica Cloud (IICS) and lists all available PODs.

Licenses

Read this article to learn about Licenses and how they determine the organization's Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services subscription level and provide access to Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services features, connectors, and bundles.

Metering

This article explains how you can view metering information for your organization and sub-organizations.

Status Page subscription for maintenance and incidents

This video explains how to subscribe to Informatica Status Page Notifications in IICS.

Release Schedule & Events Calendar

This article covers all future upgrades and maintenance schedules.

Visit the events calendar to see all the upcoming events, including releases for cloud products, events for user groups, and more.

How to Deploy a Secure Agent Locally (28 min)

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Windows

This video shows you how to download and install a Secure Agent on Windows to use with IICS. A secure agent provides connectivity between Intelligent Cloud Services and third-party sources. It stores your metadata but has no access to your business data, which needs to be up and running to run tasks.

Linux

This video shows you how to download and install a Secure Agent on Linux to use with IICS. It stores your metadata but has no access to your business data, this makes connection to Intelligent Cloud Services and on-premise applications secure.

Azure

This video shows you how to configure and deploy Secure Agent through the Azure Data Marketplace, so that you can start using IICS. A secure agent provides connectivity between Intelligent Cloud Services and third-party sources. Before you begin you will require the log in credentials of Microsoft Azure and Intelligent Cloud Services and allowed IP address for you to access the virtual machine

Google Cloud

This video shows you how to configure and deploy Secure Agent into the Google Cloud Platform so that you can start using IICS

IICS Minimum requirements and Best Practices during Installation

Informatica Cloud Secure agent is a lightweight application. However, the ETL load engine is still a PowerCenter DTM engine, requiring certain minimum machine requirements to process the tasks and high data volume with a good performance. Read this article to know more.

HOW TO: Download and Install Secure Agent on Windows

Read this article to learn how to install the Secure Agent on a Windows machine, run the Secure Agent installation program, and more.

What are the IP addresses to be Whitelisted?

FAQ: What IICS IP addresses are allowed in the Organization firewall?

If the company uses a protective firewall, you must include Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) IP addresses to the list of approved IP addresses. This ensures that the Informatica Cloud Secure Agent and related services can connect to IICS servers to perform all necessary tasks. Read this article to know more about it.

HOW TO: Do IICS Proxy Configuration in CDI?

If an organization uses an outgoing proxy server to connect to the internet, the Secure Agent connects to Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) through the proxy server. Read this article to know more.

Add a User in CDI (3 min)

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This video aims to teach you how to add a CDI user with a quick demo. It also contains a CDI Users document link to help you with more information.

Roles and Privileges in CDI (5 min)

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This video will take you through the available roles (System-defined role and Custom role) and related privileges in CDI. It also includes options to create custom roles.

Week 2

Create a Connection (28 min)

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With a demo's guidance, this video explains how to create a source/target connection when making a task, be it synchronization, mapping, or replication in CDI.

Additionally, here is an OnDemand Lab Guide that covers modules, including Informatica Cloud overview, runtime environments and connections, synchronization tasks, and more.

Move Data from SFDC to ADL (4 min)

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This video discusses how to move data from Salesforce to Azure Data Lake Store. This video also explains in detail about Salesforce and Azure Data Lake Store connections. It also contains a link to the document with performance tuning guidelines for Data Lake Store.

Create a Mapping in CDI (3 min)

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This video will inform you how to create a mapping in Data Integration, which will load data from the SQL server database to a flat file. The video also carries links to the Informatica Knowledge Base portal and online help documentation on organization properties.

Running a Mapping (3 min)

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Read this document to learn how to run a mapping task manually or on a schedule.

Week 3

SAML Setup (16 min)

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FAQs on SAML/SSO Configuration-related issues

HOW TO: Configure SAML SSO in IICS

Read this article to learn the steps to configure SSO in IICS, including contacting your IDP team/provider and getting details related to the issuer, Single Sign-On Service URL, and Signing Certificate.

FAQs on SAML SSO user management in IICS

Read this article to have your queries related to SAML SSO user management in IICS answered.

HOW TO: Configure SAML SSO using OKTA in IICS

This article covers steps to configure Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Single Sign On (SSO) in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) using OKTA.

ERROR: "The SAML user someuser@domain.com does not have any roles or groups assigned" with Okta in CDI

Read this article to understand the error, "The SAML user someuser@domain.com does not have any roles or groups assigned" with Okta in CDI.

SAML user is not created with the correct roles in IICS

Read this article to learn the steps to be followed if SAML user is not created with the correct roles in IICS

Configuring Version Control

FAQ: All about Source Control (Version Control) in IICS

This article would provide some of the FAQs that, one can come across when using the Source Control feature in IICS. If the information you are looking for is unavailable, provide feedback, and the KB will be updated.

Source Control

You can use a GitHub or Azure DevOps Git source control repository with Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services to manage and track changes made to Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services objects such as projects, folders, and assets. Read this document to learn more.

Checking Out an Object

When you check out an object, it is locked so that other users can't update it while making your changes. Read this document to know more.

Selecting a Runtime (10 min)

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Advanced Serverless

We have launched Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Cloud Data Integration Elastic in Advanced Serverless deployment environments. Advanced Serverless enables customers to leverage serverless computing to process data integration pipelines. Users can run their data integration or Spark-based data integration jobs in serverless mode. This eliminates the need to manage hardware or software and simplifies DevOps and DataOps, allowing developers to focus quickly on business logic and deploy new data pipelines.

Overview

Watch this video that describes how to accelerate your data pipelines with Informatica Advanced Serverless. Learn how Informatica's cloud-native, zero-footprint serverless option frees you from managing servers or infrastructure, simplifying DevOps.

How to: Serverless Setup

Watch this video and learn how to set up a Serverless Runtime Environment with the AWS CloudFormation template.

Create and Assign Secure Agents (4 min)

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This video discusses secure agent groups and how to create them. It also explains how to add secure agents and the advantages of secure agent groups. The video comprises links for more information on secure agent groups.

On Prem vs Cloud Hosted Secure Agent (4 min)

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This video provides an overview of Informatica Cloud Hosted Agent. It also demonstrates the difference between OnPrem and Cloud Hosted Secure Agent. The video contains a link that includes a list of supported connectors.

CDI Elastic (5 min)

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In this demo, you will learn how to use Cloud Data Integration Elastic to process data integration jobs in a fully managed Spark serverless environment.

CDI-Elastic Learning Path

Informatica’s elastic engine can grow and shrink the number of servers used for distributed processing of typically larger data sets. Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning algorithms to determine the appropriate number of servers, internal benchmark studies have shown Informatica CDI-e to be among the most cost-efficient processing engines available in a Cloud ecosystem. Go to our CDI-Elastic Learning Path to learn more.

Congratulations on successfully completing your learning on Cloud Platform Onboarding! Now you will be able to deploy a Secure Agent, create Connections and run a few jobs. Let us know your thoughts about this session here.

Week 4

CDI Architecture Overview - For Business Users (4 min)

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This video provides a brief Cloud Data Integration overview, architecture review, and necessary prerequisites for business users and lastly concludes by describing a simple Cloud Data Integration use case.

CDI Architecture Overview - For Technical Users (5 min)

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This video will help you understand the Cloud Data Integration Architecture more thoroughly. The video discusses Cloud Data Integration Services as an iPaaS solution, its architecture, secure agent, and other capabilities.

Assurance service and Prerelease testing options (2 min)

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