IBM Cloud Paks Redbooks

Enabling IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management to Connect Kubernetes Clusters Using IBM Secure Gateway
IBM Cloud Paks

Redpaper, published 20 Nov 2020

In today’s dynamically changing IT landscape, it is highly likely that a company’s cloud strategy spans multiple cloud providers. Such a span is known as the hydrid multi-cloud landscape. The challenges that quickly surface in an IT department’s list of responsibilities now encompass managing environments that are running on multiple cloud providers. The traditional IT administrators find themselves using individual dashboards for each of the cloud providers to monitor and manage those environments. In turn, each of the cloud provider’s dashboards have their own unique features that ... [more]

Red Hat OpenShift V4.3 on IBM Power Systems Reference Guide
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 11 Sep 2020

This IBM® Redpaper publication describes how to deploy Red Hat OpenShift V4.3 on IBM Power Systems servers. This book presents reference architectures for deployment, initial sizing guidelines for server, storage, and IBM Cloud® Paks. Moreover, this publication delivers information about initial supported Power System configurations for Red Hat OpenShift V4.3 deployment (bare metal, IBM PowerVM® LE LPARs, and others). This book serves as a guide for how to deploy Red Hat OpenShift V4.3 and provide start guidelines and recommended practices for implementing it on Power Systems and completing ... [more]

Cataloging Unstructured Data in IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog with IBM Spectrum Discover
Storage Solutions

Redpaper, published 11 Aug 2020

  (based on 1 review)

This IBM® Redpaper publication explains how IBM Spectrum® Discover integrates with the IBM Watson® Knowledge Catalog (WKC) component of IBM Cloud® Pak for Data (IBM CP4D) to make the enriched catalog content in IBM Spectrum Discover along with the associated data available in WKC and IBM CP4D. From an end-to-end IBM solution point of view, IBM CP4D and WKC provide state-of-the-art data governance, collaboration, and artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics tools, and IBM Spectrum Discover complements these features by adding support for unstructured data on large-scale file and object ... [more]

Accelerating Modernization with Agile Integration
Cloud

Redbooks, published 30 Jan 2020, last updated 2 Jul 2020

  (based on 1 review)

The organization pursuing digital transformation must embrace new ways to use and deploy integration technologies, so they can move quickly in a manner appropriate to the goals of multicloud, decentralization, and microservices. The integration layer must transform to allow organizations to move boldly in building new customer experiences, rather than forcing models for architecture and development that pull away from maximizing the organization's productivity. Many organizations have started embracing agile application techniques, such as microservice architecture, and are now seeing the ... [more]

Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Cloud Paks on IBM Power Systems: Volume 1
Red Hat

Redbooks, published 2 Mar 2020, last updated 12 Mar 2020

  (based on 2 reviews)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication educates and prepares the readers to understand and enter the multicloud era. This book describes a journey to the following aspects of multicloud and associated context of application modernization:
- Introduction to the rationale and methodology of this publication
- Concepts and terminology
- Why move to the cloud?
- Introduction to containers and orchestration with Kubernetes
- Introduction to OpenShift on Power Systems
- Why IBM? Why IBM Power Systems?
- Reference architecture for Red Hat OpenShift on Power Systems ... [more]