IBM Cloud Pak® for Applications accelerator
IBM Cloud Pak® System is the fastest way to deploy, manage, and move application environments across hybrid clouds. By capturing applications as accelerators, you have a seamless path to move the apps across hybrid environments without any change. IBM Cloud Pak® System simplifies and automates these tasks and processes to accelerate application delivery, lower costs and reduce errors.
The IBM Cloud Pak for Applications Platform on OpenShift Container Platform accelerator offers an end-to-end, enterprise-specific experience to speed development of applications that are built for Kubernetes. Built on IBM WebSphere® offerings and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with IBM Kabanero Enterprise, the IBM Cloud Pak for Applications provides a long-term solution to help you transition between public, private, and hybrid cloud and create new business applications.
Customize your modernization strategy with a flexible deployment model and modernization toolkit. You can transition traditional applications to the cloud in a cost-effective way that makes sense for your business.
IBM Cloud Pak for Applications Platform on OpenShift Container Platform accelerator enables the IBM Cloud Pak for Applications to run in IBM Cloud Pak System. OpenShift Container Platform is deployed with Cloud Pak resources. This deployment efficiently runs workloads, manages all integrated components, monitors the health of the system, and administers and manages application deployments.
For more information about IBM Cloud Pak for Applications, see IBM Cloud Pak for Applications documentation 
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Note: IBM Cloud Pak for Applications 4.2* is end of support. For more information, see Software withdrawal and support discontinuance .
What is Accelerators for Teams?
Accelerators for Teams brings together foundational technologies into a modern microservices-based framework. Developing apps for container platforms requires harmony between developers, architects, and operations. Today’s developers need to be efficient at much more than writing code. Architects and operations get overloaded with choices, standards, and compliance. Kabanero speeds development of applications built for Kubernetes. Design, develop, deploy, and manage with speed and control. This provides an end-to-end solution that enables you to architect, build, deploy, and manage the lifecycle of Kubernetes-based applications, faster. Kabanero takes the guess work out of Kubernetes and DevOps. With Kabanero, you do not need to spend time mastering DevOps practices and Kubernetes infrastructure topics like networking, ingress, and security. Instead, Kabanero integrates the runtimes and frameworks that you already know and use (Node.js, Java, Swift) with a Kubernetes-native DevOps toolchain. Our pre-built deployments to Kubernetes and Knative (using Operators and Helm charts) are built on best practices. So, developers can spend more time developing scalable applications and less time understanding infrastructure.
The Accelerators for Teams instance provides information about your collections and, under Tools, has links to the Tekton dashboard and other tools such as Transformation Advisor. The Transformation Advisor is a free developer
tool to help you quickly evaluate on-premise Java EE apps for deployment to the cloud. Transformation Advisor also helps to get you started making the move to cloud by automatically generating many of the artifacts you need to containerize
and deploy your application to the cloud, and via Microclimate APIs can containerize and deploy your application to Cloud. Tekton Pipelines are cloud native and run on Kubernetes using custom resource definitions specialized for executing CI/CD workflows.
What is Appsody?
Appsody makes creating cloud native applications simple. It provides application stacks for frameworks, which are pre-configured with cloud native capabilities for Kubernetes and Knative deployments. Appsody gives you pre-configured stacks and templates for a growing set of popular frameworks, providing a foundation on which to build applications for Kubernetes and Knative deployments. This allows developers to focus on their code, reducing the learning curve for cloud-native development and enabling rapid development for these cloud-native applications. These can be customized through a central hub, allowing architects and teams to infuse their experience and best practices into the foundation for developers who can then build, run, test, debug, and deploy their applications through the intuitive Appsody command line interface (CLI).