IBM Cloud Pak System overview

IBM® Cloud Pak System is a system to help you manage resources in a cloud-computing environment.

IBM Cloud Pak System uses workload patterns to create consistent, validated, and repeatable virtual applications within the cloud environment. Workload patterns are solutions that enable the deployment of complex business applications in a cloud environment. When you use a workload pattern, you can focus on an application as opposed to the middleware infrastructure in which the application runs. For example, if an application consists of a WebSphere Application Server application, a database schema, and an LDAP program to manage users, you deploy these applications and IBM Cloud Pak System installs and configures the required middleware and manages the application run time using policies that you define.

IBM Cloud Pak System can be placed in a data center to dispense applications and topologies into a pool or cloud of virtualized hardware, and to manage these resources.

IBM Cloud Pak System manages the people, places, and things in your cloud-computing environment. Cloud computing is a computing paradigm in which data and services are located in data centers. The data and services can then be accessed from any connected devices over the Internet. Applications can use the cloud for added value, such as storage, queuing, and hosted applications. The applications themselves can also be hosted on the cloud.

IBM Cloud Pak System manages the following resources:

Using IBM Cloud Pak System, you can access the resources in your cloud and you can manage multiple environments from a single system and remote interface. For more information about the resources that you can manage, see Topology resources in the cloud.