In just a few years, digital transformation has experienced a 10-year metamorphosis, such as the requirement to offer remote access to services and link individuals from their homes.
How can businesses keep up with the shift to “digital-first” thinking and offer new business value faster and more efficiently while lowering costs?
More specifically, how can IT leaders:
The way apps are designed, deployed, and managed is undergoing a change. In the public cloud, cloud-native development has been adopted as a faster, more agile, and more dependable method of developing the next generation of apps.
To provide flexibility, cloud-native apps are built on three core technologies:
1. Containers: to organize software with their needs so that they can run on any platform
2. Microservices: loosely connected services to create applications
3. Orchestration: to deploy and manage containerized applications at scale.
Cloud-native applications can also be designed and deployed in the data center, on private clouds, and at the edge, which is not widely mentioned. Or that these new applications will be able to use existing data to develop tomorrow’s mission-critical systems.
When this technology is combined with consistent development tools, portability across platforms, and common operational skills, it enables a new approach to developing workloads across the hybrid cloud.
Cloud-native workloads can be optimized for hardware architectures, including IBM zSystems and LinuxONE, IBM Power, x86, and Arm. They can also be co-located with data to maximize performance and application management and to support data residency requirements.
A hybrid cloud platform that spans all conceivable deployments is the first step in developing cloud-native apps that can operate anywhere. This platform spans the whole hybrid cloud — from core to cloud to edge — and provides the foundation for developing and deploying apps and services.
They believe that having an open-source basis is critical for future flexibility, community creativity, and consistency across client development teams. That’s why many cloud platforms are built on open-source components like Linux, containers, and Kubernetes. The open-source components must be combined, hardened for enterprise workloads, and made simple to use and maintain.
Red Hat OpenShift serves as the foundation for IBM’s hybrid cloud platform. Red Hat OpenShift is the industry’s premier enterprise Kubernetes platform, providing a consistent foundation for developing, deploying, and managing hybrid cloud applications. In March 2022, Red Hat OpenShift 4.10 was released, which enhances installer flexibility, automated operations, and workload extensibility.
The infrastructure on which the hybrid cloud platform works — public or private cloud, traditional infrastructure, and edge — is at its foundation. It’s critical that the hybrid cloud platform runs on all of the company’s IT infrastructure, not just a single public cloud or on-premises server. This enables existing data and applications to be part of the hybrid cloud alongside new cloud-native applications. It also eliminates the possibility of vendor lock-in by allowing workload placement flexibility to best match the infrastructure.
Red Hat OpenShift is available on the most popular public clouds, including IBM Cloud, which offers fully automated container hosting. With IBM Cloud Satellite, it can be expanded to on-premises, edge, and public cloud settings.
Red Hat OpenShift can also run on-premises, close to current data and applications, on IBM Power, IBM zSystems, and IBM LinuxONE. The IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center then offers IaaS for Linux on IBM zSystems, which might make the Red Hat OpenShift installation process easier. IBM has also just launched IBM zCX Foundation for Red Hat OpenShift, which allows Red Hat OpenShift apps to run in the z/OS address space while still being supported by IBM.
With a container-native hybrid cloud data platform for Red Hat OpenShift applications, IBM Spectrum Fusion and Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation provide persistent data support for Red Hat OpenShift.
The business value is then delivered by the hybrid cloud software workloads, which can be containerized to run on top of the hybrid cloud platform. Databases and automation software, as well as ISV and commercial applications, are examples of these workloads. Once containerized, they can take advantage of the scalability and orchestration provided by tools like Kubernetes.
IBM has containerized its core software to run on Red Hat OpenShift across a variety of hardware architectures and packaged it into a set of AI-powered IBM Cloud® Paks.
The Red Hat Marketplace is an open software marketplace where ISVs can sell hybrid cloud apps.
Cloud-native applications are no longer just for the public cloud. The availability of a hybrid cloud platform that runs across public cloud, private cloud, and traditional infrastructure has opened the possibility of a common approach to developing applications across the hybrid cloud — helping enable faster delivery of new value to businesses and their customers.
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