Deploy IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit integrations to a containerized environment on Red Hat OpenShift
The IBM App Connect in containers offering supports the deployment of broker archive (BAR) files that were developed by using the IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit from your existing IBM Integration Bus or IBM App Connect Enterprise environment.
You can deploy your Toolkit integrations to integration servers or integration runtimes. In the containerized environment, the integration server and integration runtime custom resource types both enable you to run an integration solution as an always-on deployment, which is always running or available on your OpenShift cluster. Integration runtimes also support OpenTelemetry tracing of your Toolkit flows to make your integration runtime deployments observable.
To learn how you can migrate
or deploy your Toolkit integrations to a containerized
environment, you will use a BAR file, which contains a simple message flow, to walk through the
concepts and sequence. You will deploy this BAR file to an integration runtime.
Two alternative scenarios are provided to walk you through the deployment process within a Red Hat® OpenShift® environment. The first scenario uses the command line and the second scenario uses the App Connect Dashboard user interface that IBM App Connect in containers provides. These walk-throughs are designed to be completed in sequence.