IBM Cloud Private V3.2 adds IBM Multicloud Manager, an integrated solution purpose-built to help modernize your applications to cloud native deployments
IBM Asia Pacific Software Announcement AP19-0276May 28, 2019
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At a glance
IBM Cloud™ Private V3.2 brings an integrated solution with IBM® Multicloud Manager V3.2, which helps to modernize your applications to cloud native deployments to edge use cases. Along with improvements in the quality, efficiency, security, and overall stability of IBM Cloud Private, the addition of Multicloud Manager:
- Brings policy-based application movement
- Provides advanced topology views
- Extends its use cases to edge computing, specifically edge servers and gateways
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Overview
Version 3.2 of IBM Cloud Private extends its solution portfolio with the integration of Multicloud Manager V3.2. IBM Cloud Private and Multicloud Manager are now a tightly integrated solution that brings advanced private cloud and multicloud capabilities for the enterprise. This solution enables enterprises to maintain control over security configurations across heterogeneous multicloud environments
IBM Cloud Private V3.2 brings an integrated platform for developing, modernizing, and managing containerized applications:
- Provides an integrated cloud platform for enterprise workloads that need to be securely run behind your firewalls
- Enables development and production of cloud native applications in a private cloud
- Enables refactoring and modernization of monolithic or legacy enterprise applications
- Provides security-rich toolsets to integrate to public cloud services from within your data centers
- Features application analytics, integration, monitoring, and security tools that are ready for immediate use to consistently manage IBM and non-IBM based workloads, providing a consistent and resilient way to build, deploy, and manage applications
- Includes IBM Cloud Automation Manager, IBM Microclimate, IBM Transformation Advisor, and IBM Vulnerability Advisor
- Brings one cloud experience for clients with hybrid cloud integration
- Provides IBM Content for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RH OCP) - Cloud Packs and Solution Packs
- Extends its use cases to edge computing, specifically edge servers and gateways
- Upgrades directly from previous versions of IBM Cloud Private V3.x.x to IBM Cloud Private V3.2
Technical previews:
- Installing IBM Cloud Private with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
- Mutation policy controller
- IBM Cloud Private cluster health check service
With IBM Cloud Private, enterprises can gain operations optimization, infrastructure access, development efficiencies, and speed to market, while continuing to abide by the regulations that are imposed for their industry, geographical region, and corporation.
Multicloud Manager V3.2 is an enterprise-grade, multicloud, multicluster management solution, purpose-built to address the policy, compliance, and application management challenges of multiple clusters:
- Set and enforce polices for security, applications, and infrastructure (auto enforcement at cluster level)
- Streamline application management with Cross Cloud Security Dashboard, Management Console, and policy-based application movement
- Check compliance against deployment parameters, configuration, and policies
- Automatically remediate violations
- Deploy applications across clusters based on policy compliance, development versus test, and so on
- Automatically update monitoring dashboard based on deployment
- Understand failure dependencies and identify the affected system if a shared component fails
Technical preview:
- Multicloud Manager hub cluster failover
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Key requirements
Supports Linux® and Linux on Power® IBM Z®.
For details, see the System requirements.
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Planned availability date
May 31, 2019
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Statement of general direction
With ICP/MCM v3.2 release, IBM Multicloud Manager will extend its capabilities to the Edge. Specifically, IBM Multicloud Manager will manage enterprise applications deployed to container orchestration platforms at the edge of the network. An example is a logistics company needing full compute stack of ICP in each warehouse for distribution.
IBM intends to build on these use cases in the near future. IBM intends to deliver an edge technology that will enable workloads to be deployed and managed out to lightweight edge devices in addition to servers/gateways. Workloads created in the cloud (on container orchestration platforms) can be pushed out and managed directly at the device at a much larger scale than previously supported by ICP/MCM alone. There will be visibility and governance provided with extended MCM capabilities that will be available at the light weight device layer, with connection back to the central server/gateway. It will be available on x86 and Power
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Reference information
For more information about IBM Cloud Private, see Software Announcement AP18-0425, dated September 11, 2018.
For more information about the business advantages and capabilities of IBM Cloud Private and IBM Multicloud Manager, sign into Aha! and explore:
- IBM Content for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RH OCP) - Cloud Packs and Solution Packs.
- Support minimal platform for small compute and edge devices.
- Capability to upgrade directly to IBM Cloud Private V3.2.0 from versions 3.1.0, 3.1.1, and 3.1.2. For more information, see Upgrading.
- Improved data isolation for Service Providers.
- Hybrid Cloud Integration to bring one cloud experience with single sign-on (SSO) token exchange and Key Protect Alignment.
- Unified user experience with multicluster focus.
- Improved security with Multicloud Governance, Risk & Compliance Auditing, and Policy Management.
- Multicluster continuous delivery of applications and clusters.
- Various security enhancements for IAM, Cert-Management, Key Management, Audit Logging, RBAC, VA/MA, K8S, and PSPs.
- Application user experience and management (Cloud Foundry , Kubernetes, and Knative).
- Integration of IBM Multicloud Manager.
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Program number
| Program number | VRM | Program name |
|---|---|---|
| 5737-E67 | 3.2.0 | IBM Cloud Private |
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| Program identifier | License Information document title | License Information document number |
|---|---|---|
| 5737-E67 | IBM Cloud Private | L-TKAO-BANL2X |
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| Program identifier | License Information document title | License Information document number |
|---|---|---|
| 5737-E67 | IBM Cloud Private | L-TKAO-BANL2X |
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No
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| Country/Region | Announced |
|---|---|
| AP | |
| ASEAN * | Yes |
| India/South Asia ** | Yes |
| Australia | Yes |
| Hong Kong | Yes |
| Macao SAR of the PRC | Yes |
| Mongolia | Yes |
| New Zealand | Yes |
| People's Republic of China | Yes |
| South Korea | Yes |
| Taiwan | Yes |
* Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam
** Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka
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