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All the major building blocks for OpenShift applications on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE

With our linked blog Red Hat OpenShift’s Great Momentum on IBM Z and LinuxONE, we described the momentum we’ve seen in the market for Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Z since its introduction a short 18 months ago. 

In this community blog, we dig deeper into the rich portfolio of Red Hat and IBM software now available for IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE. With Red Hat OpenShift as a foundation, these software offerings are helping clients, service providers and ISVs accelerate their digital transformation through cloud native applications co-located with mission-critical data and applications

Red Hat Add-Ons for OpenShift on IBM Z and LinuxONE 

Let’s review some of the offerings available today which support the recently launched Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 release for IBM Z and LinuxONE:

• Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines: supports continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service to automate and control application delivery with Kubernetes-native pipelines based on the open-source project Tekton
• Red Hat OpenShift Serverless: delivers event-driven technology to create, deploy and run containerized serverless functions. It’s based on the open-source project Knative and with the ability to use most programming languages
• Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh: provides a uniform way to connect, manage, and observe microservices-based containerized applications. It includes two open-source projects, Istio to manage and secure traffic flows across services, and Jaeger for distributed tracing
• Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces: builds on the open-source Eclipse Che project, a collaborative Kubernetes-native offering, to provide a consistent and pre-configured development environment
• Red Hat OpenShift Do (Odo): provides an advanced command line tool for developers writing and deploying applications on OpenShift and Kubernetes
• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes: controls clusters and applications from a single console, with built-in security policies.
• Red Hat Container Catalog: provides a repository of tested and verified container images for IBM Z and LinuxONE

IBM Software for Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Z and LinuxONE

Surrounding Red Hat OpenShift is the addition of a broad portfolio of IBM software to help develop cloud-native applications, integrate OpenShift with IBM z/OS data and applications, and automate operations

• IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center simplifies and automates user-provisioned Infrastructure-as-a-Service on IBM Z and LinuxONE, which can then be used to host Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
• IBM Cloud Pak for Data helps unify and simplify data collection, organization and analysis - and in the future is planned to add capabilities to build, deploy, and manage analytic and AI models with trust and transparency
• IBM Cloud Pak for Integration supports the integration of enterprise applications, data and cloud services to accelerate digital transformation
• IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps: helps reduce operational costs and transform IT operations with predictive IT operations, and includes the capabilities of IBM Cloud Pak for MultiCloud Management to securely manage applications including on IBM Z
• IBM Storage Suite for IBM Cloud Paks: brings a complete storage management offering to the same container environment that runs and manages applications. It includes 2 main offerings: Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation and IBM Spectrum Scale with container native storage access
• IBM z/OS Cloud Broker: enables applications on Red Hat OpenShift to easily integrate with z/OS-based services in IBM Z
• z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition: provides a simple and intuitive way to API enable z/OS-based applications with RESTful APIs to and from IBM Z
• IBM Wazi Developer for Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces: delivers a containerized cloud-native development environment for z/OS running on Red Hat OpenShift