Deploying Cloud Pak for Integration demos

Important: The demos operator supports the latest version of Cloud Pak for Integration only (version 2022.4). For more information, see Deploying Cloud Pak for Integration demos.

The demos operator allows you to deploy demos that showcase the capabilities available in Cloud Pak for Integration:

  • Driveway Dent Deletion - Demonstrates the 'Scatter Gather' pattern being used to create an API. This pattern exposes three independent integration services that are called in parallel from one request, and the result is combined into a single response that is sent to the user. This pattern is often used in buying comparison sites for hotels, airline bookings, insurance, financial products, and so on.

    The demo uses a full CI/CD pipeline built on OpenShift pipelines. The pipelines build containers for each of the capabilities and runtimes, then deploys them together with all the correct credentials and bindings. It demonstrates:

    • Live deployment updates of integrations with zero downtime, and live fixpack application with zero downtime, showing that Cloud Pak for Integration can run multiple versions of products at the same time and patch and upgrade them independently.

    • A tracing/operational dashboard to show the flow of the request through the system, allowing admins to apply performance bottlenecks.

  • Event-Enabled Insurance - Shows a powerful combination of event-driven integration using Event Streams, coupled with APIs that use assured delivery through IBM MQ. This enables backend systems to send data to where it's most useful and allow a large scale of queries to be performed on the data without touching the system of record (SOR). Even when the SOR is online, customers can query their data at any time.

    Using MQ between the API and the backend allows Cloud Pak for Integration to buffer requests that are too large for the backend, allowing them to flow at a constant rate and avoid overload. In addition, when the SOR is offline, write requests are buffered in the queue to allow customers to make new claims at any time. Event Streams also enables real-time notification of claim status changes direct to their application, thus enhancing their experience with the company.

  • Car Crash Repair Demo - Demonstrates how to rapidly build APIs that connect with SaaS applications and Watson services, and securely expose them to partners.

  • Mapping Assist - Shows how mapping assist can significantly accelerate building an API by reducing the time it takes to map complex fields.

When these demos are deployed, you can:

  • Configure them as needed.

  • Show how to exploit the capabilities that are available as part of the Cloud Pak for Integration.ibm