IBM App Connect in containers (Extended Update Support)

IBM® App Connect Enterprise certified container is a lightweight enterprise integration engine that provides a way for systems and applications to communicate with each other.

IBM App Connect Enterprise certified container is based on an image of the IBM App Connect Enterprise software product and is offered as an executable package that you can deploy and run within containerized environments. You can deploy the package independently into a Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform cluster, or deploy it as part of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration.

IBM App Connect Enterprise certified container is built as a Kubernetes application and is delivered as a Kubernetes Operator. Operators provide a way to package, deploy, and manage Kubernetes applications.

Note: Throughout this documentation, IBM App Connect Enterprise certified container is typically referred to as simply IBM App Connect.

To learn more about containerized systems and tools, see the following documentation:

OpenShift Container Platform architecture in the OpenShift documentation
Understanding Operators in the OpenShift documentation
Kubernetes Basics in the Kubernetes documentation
Get Started, Part 1: Orientation and setup in the Docker documentation