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LIVE Ask Us Anything: IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

  • 1.  LIVE Ask Us Anything: IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

    Posted Thu October 22, 2020 11:21 AM
    Edited by Jess Leitsch Tue October 27, 2020 07:19 PM
    Ask Us Anything: IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

    This webcast will feature an interactive conversation about IBM Cloud Pak for Integration with a panel of IBM's technology experts.

     

    Join us to get live answers to your most pressing questions about Cloud Pak for Integration in this "Ask Me Anything" style session.

     

    Join our panel of experts in this on demand webinar and they will provide answers to the most commonly asked questions, covering licensing and usage, strategy and roadmap, technical questions, and more.  

    Please share your questions below and you can watch the on demand recording here

    Andy Garratt
    Andy Garratt
    Technical Offering Manager, IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (ICP4I)
    IBM

    Andy Garratt is an Offering Manager for IBM's Cloud Pak for Integration, based in IBM's Hursley labs in the UK. He has over 25 years' experience in architecting, designing, buildingand implementing integration solutions for customers around Europe and around the world and loves to meet users, IBMers, partners and customers to find out about all the great things they're doing with IBM integration products.

    Rob Nicholson
    Rob Nicholson
    Distinguished Engineer, Master Inventor - Hybrid Integration
    IBM

    Rob Nicholson is an IBM Distinguished Engineer. He leads the architecture team for IBM's Hybrid Integration software and managed services. Rob is one of the creators of IBM's Agile Integration Architecture and is a frequent speaker on Integration modernisation topics.

    Rob has led development teams and works with a diverse set of IBM clients across many industries and technologies. He is recognized by IBM as a Master Inventor with over 60 granted patents and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society.

    Leif Davidsen
    Leif Davidsen
    Program Director, Offering Management, , Cloud Pak for Integration
    IBM

    Leif Davidsen is the Offering Management Program Director for IBM Cloud Pak forIntegration. Leif has worked at IBM's Hursley Lab since 1989, having joined with a degree in Computer Science from the University of London. Leif has had a varied IBM career, but for the last 20+ years has been focusing on Product and Offering Management as well as Product Marketing for Integration and Connectivity. Most recent roles prior to his current one include 9 years as lead Product Manager for IBM MQ; Product manager for WebSphere Message Broker (now IBM App Connect); Worldwide Marketing Manager for WebSphere Connectivity; Marketing lead for SOA Reuse & Connectivity and Industry focused marketing for WebSphere Connectivity. You can follow Leif's occasional blog entries at http://leifdavidsen.wordpress.com/and @LeifDavidsen on Twitter.

    Matthew Roberts
    Matthew Roberts
    STSM and Architect, IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
    IBM

    Matt Roberts is the Senior Technical Staff Member and Lead Architect for the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration. Prior to this Matt held technical leadership roles in the development teams for IBM MQ, API Connect and Cast Iron, as well as working onsite with customers as a consultant for IBM's software services team.



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    Andy Garratt
    Hybrid Cloud Software Implementation Architect
    IBM
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  • 2.  RE: LIVE Ask Us Anything: IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

    Posted Mon October 26, 2020 07:00 PM
    Edited by Jess Leitsch Tue October 27, 2020 08:07 PM

    Hello everyone, 

    I hope you can join me, @Andy Garratt and @Matt Roberts on Tuesday at 10 AM ET for our LIVE Ask Us Anything session where we will be answering all of the audience questions around Cloud Pak for Integration. Please register to join here. 

    Thanks, 

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    Leif Davidsen
    Senior Offering Manager - IBM Messaging Portfolio
    Winchester

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  • 3.  RE: LIVE Ask Us Anything: IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

    Posted Tue October 27, 2020 08:10 PM
    Edited by Jess Leitsch Tue October 27, 2020 08:17 PM
    Great session everyone!

    To hear all of the questions we reviewed, you can watch the on demand replay here. The slides are available to download here and please share any questions you may have below. 



    Cheers,

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    Matt Roberts
    Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
    IBM
    Winchester
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  • 4.  RE: LIVE Ask Us Anything: IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

    Posted Wed October 28, 2020 08:54 AM
    Thanks Matt. It was a wonderful Q & A session.

    I have a question regarding communication of microservices (ACE Applications) in CP4I.

    Do we need to use Route to make communication between two ACE applications deployed in different integration servers of same namespace in
    cp4i or is there an effective way to enable the communication between services deployed in different integration servers of same namespace?

    Thanks,

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    Santhosh Ramanathan
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  • 5.  RE: LIVE Ask Us Anything: IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

    Posted Thu October 29, 2020 01:40 PM
    Hi @Santhosh Ramanathan - great, I'm pleased that you found the Q&A session useful!

    To your technical question - a Route is a mechanism to allow your deployed pods to be addressable from outside the cluster - for example by applications that are deployed in their own VM or other infrastructure that is not running inside OpenShift.

    If you are looking to communicate between two ACE integration servers running in the same namespace (in the same cluster) then you can use the internal Service address as the hostname for your outbound call and the communication will stay within the cluster's private networking stack and will not need a Route to be defined.

    Best regards,

    Matt


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    Matt Roberts
    Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
    IBM
    Winchester
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  • 6.  RE: LIVE Ask Us Anything: IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

    Posted Fri October 30, 2020 05:26 AM
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    Hi Matt,

    Thanks for your response. It clarifies my doubt.

    Another question related to automate the creation of integration server for a bar file using operator 'Yaml' file.

    I am trying create the integration server using Yaml file format mentioned in Create instance of Integration Server operator (attached the sample yaml file below).
    What is the URL value that needs to be given for 'barURL' field?
    The samples are having url from app connect dashboard bar files, but in my case I have bar files in my local system and I want to deploy that barfile into the Integration Server using yaml file. 
    Could you please let me know what is the value to be given against 'barURL' field in yaml file?

    Thanks,

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    Santhosh Ramanathan
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  • 7.  RE: LIVE Ask Us Anything: IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

    Posted Mon November 02, 2020 02:32 AM

    Hello @Santhosh Ramanathan

    The barURL corresponds to the dashboard url that store your bar files.
    Another option that you might take is to create custom ace-server images that would have your bar files already deployed.
    The image that you deploy would not need to have the barUrl in that case.



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    Pierre Richelle
    IBM Hybrid Cloud Integration Specialists
    IBM
    bruxelles
    0474681892
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  • 8.  RE: LIVE Ask Us Anything: IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

    Posted Tue November 03, 2020 06:48 AM
    Thanks Pierre. The solution worked. 

    Thanks,

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    Santhosh Ramanathan
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  • 9.  RE: LIVE Ask Us Anything: IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

    Posted Tue November 03, 2020 05:12 PM
    Hi,
    Thanks for the demo, Can we use the portworks for bar file storage ? and the bar file can we keep it yaml file to deploy it integration server. ?

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    Srinivasa Rao Gorle
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  • 10.  RE: LIVE Ask Us Anything: IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

    Posted Thu November 05, 2020 05:03 AM
    Hi @Srinivasa Rao Gorle - yes, Portworx is supported across all the CP4I components except Aspera (as listed in the System Requirements ​) which includes bar file storage in ACE.

    To your second question, BAR files are the mechanism for deploying to ACE integration servers, but they are not YAML files - and there is not support for deploying YAML files to an integration server.

    Regards,

    Matt

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    Matt Roberts
    Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
    IBM
    Winchester
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