Understanding API Connect and Hybrid Cloud
In Chapter 2, Introducing API Connect, we discussed the deployment models of API Connect. IBM has placed considerable emphasis on the hybrid cloud and that can't be any more apparent than its acquisition of Red Hat for $34 billion. IBM's hybrid cloud strategy and its Watson AI technology are becoming a differentiator in the corporate hybrid architectural strategy and Digital Transformation journey.
To be successful in hybrid cloud, customers will be looking for a common platform and the ability to continue integration with new cloud applications and on-premise systems of record.
Let's begin with the OpenShift common platform from Red Hat.
OpenShift
Is there a notion of an open hybrid cloud architecture? With containerization and open source Kubernetes, you may believe that there is, but Kubernetes in each cloud provider has its challenges. There are nuances in every implementation and Kubernetes is a huge paradigm...