IBM CLOUD PAK FOR APPLICATIONS
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Features OVERVIEW Business pressures demand faster time to market driving the need for app modernization and adoption of DevOps practices. Technology is progressing rapidly as customer’s expectations are evolving. Flexibility of solutions, maintaining BUILD ONCE AND DEPLOY availability, performance, optimal cost of ownership, and resource utilization are ON ANY CLOUD mandatory ingredients for enterprise transformation and its long-term success. As Investment Protection enterprises find the balance between protecting their existing investments and modernization initiatives for speed, flexibility, and dependability, they also demand Assessment tools for that their next-generation infrastructure be based on an open source foundation to modernization ensure innovation without vendor lock-in. Leverages Red Hat IBM Cloud Paks bring together IBM and Red Hat’s latest technology solutions OpenShift platform for apps offering the next generation hybrid multi-cloud platform, helping to put enterprises and services back in control of their complex, multi-vendor cloud environments. IBM Cloud Pak Integrated DevOps pipeline for Applications adds value to enterprise IT by providing a turnkey hybrid cloud for productivity platform that lets client build and run modern and cloud-native applications on any cloud, while providing complete visibility and observability across all their clouds, on Secure at Core and off premises. Because IBM Cloud Pak for Applications is built on open projects, enterprises can innovate faster, deliver faster, modernize applications, support new Integrated Runtimes and business cases and position enterprises well for the future while avoiding vendor middleware lock-down. Customers embarking on modernization and containerization journey report several measurable benefits throughout their journeys, such as reduction in Production Ready; labor costs, improved velocity, consistency, and quality while reducing risk in the Enterprise Grade process. IBM Cloud Pak for Applications include integrated language runtimes, Deployments and middleware, and production grade services delivering the most straightforward Management modernization path to the cloud with security, resiliency, scalability and observability.
Key Benefits I BM Cloud Pak for Applications
Run Existing Apps Continue to run your apps, where they are. MODERNI ZE APPS When apps need to move, IBM has the and New apps are automatically ready for hybrid-cloud deployment, right experience, tools, and experts to • Innovate at Speed Build New Apps using the best of open source, fully supported. move them. Codewind
• Accelerate Kabanero Enterprise (entitlement includes)
WebSphere I BM I ntegrated Application Runtimes I BM Modernization & Development Life Cycle Application Server Developer Tools Production support for: WebSphere ND • Open Liberty for Jakarta EE, Java EE and MicroProfile Red Hat • Traditional WebSphere for Java EE Runtimes • Optimize budgets and WebSphere Base • Spring Boot Transformation Advisor • Java 8 and Java 11 • Node.js with Express and Loopback frameworks WebSphere Migration avoid cloud lock-in with Digital App Builder Toolkit
I BM Mobile Mobile Knative Tekton Enterprise Dev tools Foundation Services Appsody multi-cloud I ntegrated DevOps extensions for local IDE’s
deployments ICP full product included as Red Hat OpenShift transition path to OpenShift I ncluded with all components
No Charge, supported when used Perpetual and Term licensing options, OpenShift with no functional restrictions with Cloud Pak for Applications IBM Cloud Pak For Applications - Data Sheet
HIGHLIGHTS Key Concepts CONTAINERS - THE FOUNDATION FOR MODERNIZATION
Beyond containers and Kubernetes, IBM Cloud Paks provide production topology, management, security and governance for your applications. IBM Cloud™ Paks are Kabanero Enterprise enterprise-ready, containerized software solutions that run on Red Hat® OpenShift and its included Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Cloud Paks include containerized IBM and Red Hat Kabanero Collections middleware and common software services for development and management.
Kabanero Collections Hub KABANERO ENTERPRISE FOR CONTINUOUS COMPLIANCE
Knative serverless capabilities Kabanero Enterprise, built from the Kabanero.io open source project, provides a well- defined set of tools, processes and resources for the enterprise developer, operator and architect to collaborate. Through collaboration, the Enterprise Architect can define and provide the resources the Enterprise Developer needs to develop enterprise-grade cloud native applications, delivered in a consistent manner to ensure that the applications are compliant with corporate standards and governance criteria, and are deployed in a way that Enterprise Operations team share a consistent set of tools and capabilities to perform day-to-day Operations.
KABANERO COLLECTIONS CURATED BY IBM, CUSTOMIZED BY YOU
The landscape of choices for cloud native applications is large and complex. There are multitude of options when considering a cloud native’s application environment, runtime, tools and CI/CD pipeline. The number of choices and decisions that need to be made in order to produce cloud native applications can be a barrier to adoption for developers and enterprises. Kabanero removes this barrier by providing best-of-breed runtimes, tools and build pipelines in ready-to-use Kabanero Collections. The Kabanero Collections include everything you need to create an app or microservice and deploy as container images, with enterprise-grade deployment & integrated continuous delivery pipelines. Choice of technology and pipelines are customizable to meet enterprise and platform needs. Collections integrate runtimes and frameworks with a modern DevOps Toolchain and simple developer tools that work in their IDE of choice.
KABANERO COLLECTIONS HUB
This initial set of Kabanero Collections is curated by IBM and the Kabanero community. These collections are intended to be customized by the Enterprise Architect to define the application environment which the Enterprise Developer will use when building their application and to meet their individual needs. The Collections customization includes aspects such as shared configuration, security settings, and minimum software levels.
KNATIVE SERVERLESS CAPABILITIES
Knative capabilities of IBM Cloud Pak for Applications include integrated development tools, framework and development environment (IDE) to build and run serverless applications on Kubernetes. Knative offers features like scale-to-zero, autoscaling, in- cluster builds, and eventing frameworks for cloud-native applications on Kubernetes.
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HIGHLIGHTS Key Concepts RED HAT RUNTIMES / RED HAT APPLICATION RUNTIMES Red Hat Runtimes / Red Hat Red Hat Application Runtimes is a recommended set of products, tools, and components Application Runtimes to develop and maintain cloud-native applications. The portfolio provides runtimes, frameworks, fast data access, and messaging broker in flexible, easy-to-use, cost- IBM Integrated Application effective, open, and collaborative ways. Red Hat Application Runtimes can run on- Runtimes premise, in the cloud, or within a container platform, such as Red Hat OpenShift.
IBM INTEGRATED APPLICATION RUNTIMES IBM Modernization and Migration tools IBM integrated application runtimes include set of Java and Jakarta EE compliant runtimes as well as Node.js runtimes supporting industry leading frameworks such as No Charge Common Services MicroProfile, Loopback and Spring
IBM Mobile Foundation IBM MODERNIZATION AND MIGRATION TOOLS TO HELP CHOOSE BEST FIT APPROACH To get started on your modernization journey, you must understand the approaches that Flexible Pricing are available and appropriate for your estate. The IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor helps you select the best entry point to deliver value at each step in your journey. It offers advice on containerizing the monolithic app, exposing on-premises assets with APIs, refactoring into microservices, adding new microservices, and incrementally sunset the monolithic app.
NO CHARGE COMMON SERVICES FOR PROACTIVE PROBLEM DETERMINATION, OBSERVABILITY and RESOLUTION
IBM Cloud Pak for Applications include no-charge technologies providing integrated operations management for security, logging, monitoring, metering, and application navigation. These services enable enterprise operations teams to have centralized Key Resources observability to all applications deployed across on-premise or off-premise environments.
IBM MOBILE FOUNDATION IBM Cloud Pak for Applications With Mobile Foundation, developers get containerized mobile back-end services covering • Demos, Videos, Hands-on Labs comprehensive security, application life cycle management, push notifications, feature toggle, off-line sync, and back-end integration so they can deliver next-gen apps targeted • Kabanero for mobile, wearables, web, Progressive Web App (PWA) and other personal devices. • Open Liberty FLEXIBLE PRICING • WebSphere • Mobile Foundation You no longer must choose between private cloud-based platforms, traditional server deployments, or public cloud application deployments. Cloud Pak for Applications • DevOps (add-on) delivers all of those platform options, the ability to mix and match as you need today, and Reference Architectures: the flexibility to change that mix over time as you transition and create more applications for the cloud. The programs included are full function and all being made available using • Moving WAS ND to Kabanero the simplified VPC pricing metric, offering perpetual and term licenses for easy of • Kabanero Enterprise consumption. These licenses provide flexibility to deploy apps either on-premise (bare metal servers, VMs, containers) or public cloud.
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DESCRIPTIONS OF IBM CLOUD PAK FOR APPLICATIONS PRODUCTS AND COMPONENTS
PRODUCTS FLEXIBLE ENTITLEMENT IBM Cloud Pak for Applications Quickly build cloud-native apps by leveraging built-in developer tools and processes, including support for microservices functions and serverless computing. License flexibility supports flexible fit-for-purpose deployment options for running traditional apps in containers. IBM and Red Hat Integrated Runtimes Offers a converged set of IBM and Red Hat Application Runtimes to provide runtimes, frameworks, fast data access, and high-performance messaging in flexible, easy-to-use, cost-effective, open, and collaborative ways so developers can focus on business logic to develop and maintain cloud-native applications. The combined set Components include: • Open Liberty, Node.js supporting frameworks: MicroProfile, Java EE Jakarta EE, Spring Boot, Loopback and Express • Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes: Vert.x, Thorntail, Node.js, Spring Boot • Red Hat JBOSS Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) • Red Hat Data Grid • Red Hat AMQ (Broker) • Authentication (SSO) • Launcher Service • Red Hat Application Migration Toolkit • WebSphere Application Migration Tools Kabanero Enterprise is the commercial enterprise-ready and fully supported Kabanero Enterprise implementation of the Kabanero.io open source community project. It offers a modern microservices based framework that simplify application development at scale with the following open source components, supported by IBM. • Kabanero.io: A modern microservices-based framework for continuous development and continuous deploy of apps on Kubernetes and Knative • Appsody: Pre-built stacks for popular open source runtimes and frameworks that simplifies building cloud-native apps with single point of control for lifecycle of all apps build with stacks. • Codewind: Extensions to popular IDEs for cloud-native development and running applications in containers • Tekton: Modern DevOps using Kubernetes-native pipelines • Open Liberty: Highly composable, lightweight full platform Java and Jakarta EE compliant Java runtime Kabanero Enterprise also includes entitlement to deploy Liberty Core, WAS (base) and IBM Mobile Foundation application in containers on OpenShift. Cloud Pak for Applications include industry leading, production ready Java EE and IBM WebSphere Application Sever Jakarta EE compliant runtimes for Java Apps. • WebSphere Application Server ND, WebSphere Application Server, and the WebSphere Liberty editions with the ability to easily mix and match between them. • WebSphere editions can be deployed in containers, bare metal servers, Virtual Machines or any on-prem/off-prem cloud environments IBM Mobile Foundation Support for security, application life cycle management, push notifications, feature toggle, off-line sync, and back-end integration. The platform includes a low-code studio, private appstore, and rich SDKs for widely used mobile frameworks for both native and hybrid developers. Red Hat OpenShift Container platform Delivers a security-focused, consistent foundation, so developers can deliver applications anywhere and with the most optimal container platform.
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IBM Cloud Pak for Application includes entitlement for the full and functionally unrestricted Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Common Core Services IBM offers no-charge common service that can be deployed on Red Hat OpenShift. List of common services include: • IBM Application Navigator • Logging: Aggregate logs from hosts and applications, whether coming from multiple containers or even deleted pods. • Monitoring: Consolidates data from platform, containers, apps for ease of problem determination; Encryption of data at-rest and data in-transit. FIPS compliance • Metering services: Meters usage of IBM software for license compliance purposes • Identity and Access Management: Provides common authentication and authorization service for SSO across variety of systems (LDAP, OIDC, SAML), Multi-tenancy support, Role base access control • Certificate management: Provide for the ability of cluster services to request signed certificates and manage revocation/reconfiguration of the TLS certificates o Integration with third party cert issuers • Application health check: Built using the open source project kAppNav, Application Navigator enables observability across “business applications”. o User-defined composition of the “business application” provide centralized observability for all apps deployed in containers or VMs, bare metal servers or any cloud environments that use supported runtimes o Provides quick R-G-Y health-check status for all apps and its dependencies on a single pane of glass for ease of proactive problem assessment
Modernization and Migration tools IBM Cloud Pak for Applications include no-charge tools support for your cloud journey: • IBM Cloud™ Transformation Advisor • Transformation Advisor: Delivers Informed advice on how to modernize your applications, leveraging IBM’s expertise and best practices • WebSphere Migration Toolkit: Provides a suite of tools to migrate to the latest releases of traditional WebSphere Application Server and Liberty.
CUSTOMER KEY BENEFIT SUMMARY: IBM Cloud Paks bring together IBM and Red Hat’s latest technology solutions offering the next generation hybrid multi-cloud platform, helping to put enterprises back in control of their complex, multi-vendor cloud environments. IBM Cloud Pak for Applications adds value to enterprise IT by providing a turnkey hybrid cloud platform that lets client build and run modern and cloud-native applications on any cloud, while providing complete visibility and observability across all their clouds, on and off premises. Because IBM Cloud Pak for Applications is built on open projects, enterprises can innovate faster, deliver faster, modernize applications, support new business cases and position enterprises well for the future while avoiding vendor lock-down.
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