WebSphere Application Server editions

WebSphere Application Server, with its traditional and Liberty runtimes, offers production-ready, standards-based compliance to support the Application Modernization strategies that underpin business transformation. Additional features and enhancements to WebSphere Application Server offer an ideal infrastructure that is well-suited for enterprise IT, upon which businesses can deliver composable applications and enhancements to help operational modernization.

Converging the operational models of traditional WebSphere Application Server and Kubernetes takes advantage of Kubernetes platform services, such as logging and monitoring. This helps to enable secure, flexible, and efficient access to internal or external software components and services. These enhancements ease integration of WebSphere runtimes in the DevOps workflows to provide continuous integration and continuous delivery to container-based Kubernetes environments such as IBM Cloud.

WebSphere Hybrid Edition supports on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud deployments and includes the following WebSphere Application Server editions: