Deployment models
When it comes to the hybrid cloud implementation for API Connect, you will find it difficult to find another API Management product that deploys to as many cloud platforms as IBM API Connect. In this section, you will be provided with information regarding how API Connect is packaged to run on-premises and on cloud platforms using various methods of deployment.
So, how is it that API Connect can be deployed to so many different destinations? Well, it all has to do with how the product was developed. Since version v2018, API Connect has to be built from the ground up as microservices running in containers. To manage these containers, IBM utilizes Kubernetes and, now, Red Hat OpenShift.
You'll start learning about the models, beginning with the most prominent one – the on-premises model.
The on-premises implementation
You have three choices when you want to implement API Connect on-premises within your data center:
- VMware ESX
- Bare...