Containers Solutions

Modernizing with containers offers numerous advantages for software development and deployment. Containers increase agility and accelerate innovation by enabling faster development cycles and reducing time to market. They improve portability and consistency across different environments, making it easier to move applications between development, testing and production stages.

Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift
Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform that provides the foundation for managing containerized applications. Red Hat® OpenShift® is a commercial enterprise-ready container platform built on top of Kubernetes.

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Benefits

Portability

A container creates an executable package of software that is abstracted away from (not tied to or dependent upon) the host operating system (OS). Hence, it is portable and able to run uniformly and consistently across any platform or cloud. 

Agility

Developing and deploying containers increases agility and allows applications to work in cloud environments that best meet business needs.  

Speed

Containers are “lightweight,” meaning they share the machine’s OS kernel. This feature not only drives higher server efficiencies but also reduces server and licensing costs while speeding up start times, as there is no OS to boot.

Cloud containers

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

Deploy highly available, fully managed Red Hat OpenShift clusters with a click of a button.

IBM Cloud Code Engine

Run serverless applications from source code or container images.

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

Simplify the deployment, management and operations of Kubernetes.

Infrastructure platform for containers

IBM Fusion

Easily deploy Red Hat OpenShift applications and watsonx™. Fusion is available as two flexible options to support your hybrid cloud needs.

Virtualization and containerization

Run virtualized applications on IBM Fusion with Red Hat OpenShift to provide the flexibility, security and cost savings toward the journey to a cloud-native future.

Data management services

Explore five foundational application data services that deliver a consistent experience across public cloud and on-premises bare metal or virtualized platforms.

Containers for Z

IBM z/OS Container Platform

Industry-standard cloud technologies to build and run z/OS® UNIX applications as containers on z/OS.

Use cases

Container frameworks have proven exceedingly capable of generating stable workflows with optimized runtimes and continuous delivery.

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App Modernization

Microservices

DevOps

Hybrid multicloud

Serverless

App Modernization

Modernizing your VMware workloads with containers in the cloud

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Case studies

Masters

Explore AI insights powered by IBM Cloud® Containers, available to businesses around the world.

Etihad Airways

Make airport check-ins fast and easy by adoption of microservices architecture on an open, highly scalable hybrid-cloud platform.

Eljun

Connect electric vehicle owners to charging station owners by scaling up and down and in and out your serverless infrastructure.

Next steps

Schedule a no-cost 30-minute meeting with an IBM representative.

Containers on IBM Cloud

Learn how the IBM Cloud Containers portfolio can help solve your business needs.

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Rapidly deploy containers on IBM Fusion

The easiest way to deploy OpenShift applications and watsonx.

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