IBM Integration
Bus on Cloud includes administration
tooling and a run time for integration deployment, and allows an
IBM Integration
Bus administrator to do the
following things:
- Provision an IBM Integration
Bus environment
and deploy an integration to it.
- Connect IBM Integration
Bus on Cloud integrations
securely to on-premises applications.
- Access support through community-based forums or IBM Support.
In IBM Integration
Bus, you create integration
solutions by developing resources and packaging them into a BAR file.
You then create an integration server on an integration node, and
you deploy your BAR file to the integration server. In IBM Integration
Bus on Cloud, you create a BAR file
in IBM Integration
Bus on premises, then
deploy the BAR file by uploading it to the cloud. When you upload
your BAR file to the cloud, the contents of the BAR file are used
to create an integration. Each integration contains the contents of
a single BAR file. You can start and stop your integrations in the
integrations list view.
Basic authentication enables secure access to HTTP and SOAP public
endpoints that are running in your integrations (see Basic authentication). The message flows in your integrations
can communicate securely with on-premises applications, such as databases
(see Secure connectivity to private endpoints). You can also split message
flow processing by using flows that can call other flows (see Callable message flows).
Internal evaluation of the performance of
IBM Integration
Bus on Cloud has shown that it is
possible to obtain an equivalent level of performance (in terms of
message throughput and CPU utilization) as when using
IBM Integration
Bus installed directly on an
xLinux server of similar hardware capacity, when running the same
use cases. For example, a SOAP provider test case, running with a
range of message sizes (2K, 20K, and 200K) on the following systems,
shows equivalent message throughput when adjustments are made for
hardware differences:
- IBM Integration
Bus on Cloud 4 GB On Demand
container
- Native X86-64 Intel XEON system running IBM Integration
Bus Version 10.0.0.7 with RHEL
operating system
Note: Results are specific to the test case and the environment
in which they were obtained; your results might vary based on the
composition of the test cases, the environment, and the methodology
used.
When you sign up for a subscription to IBM Integration
Bus on Cloud, you are given a space.
This space is an environment, which might represent a department in
your company or a deployment environment (for example, test or production).
You can run multiple integrations in the same space. In the future,
you will be able to add extra spaces.
A number of subscription types are available:
- Free
- With the free subscription, you can try the service for free for
30 days. During this time, you can have 5 integrations uploaded to
your space at any time, but you can run one integration only. Inactive
integrations are stopped after 3 hours, but you can restart them when
you need them. If you have questions while you are using the service
for free, you can ask them in an on-line community forum.
- On demand
- With the on demand subscription, you can create and run as many
integrations as you want in your space. No minimum term is specified
for this level of subscription, and you are billed monthly in arrears.
You are charged for what you use per hour. You can obtain support
from an on-line community forum.
- 12-month subscription
- This subscription is currently available to existing IBM Integration
Bus customers only and is for
a minimum term of 12 months. You are billed in advance for each subscription,
and you can buy multiple subscriptions. For each subscription, you
can have 10 integrations uploaded to your space at any time, but you
can run one integration only. Therefore, to run more integrations,
you should buy more subscriptions. You can obtain support from IBM Support, or from an on-line
community forum.
For short-term workloads, on-demand subscriptions provide
the greatest flexibility because you pay for what you use, based on
integrations that are running. For enterprises, the 12-month subscription
offers the best price for committed usage.
Prerequisites for using IBM Integration
Bus on Cloud
You
must have developed your integrations in IBM Integration
Bus on premises, and compiled
your resources into a BAR file. IBM Integration
Bus on Cloud capabilities are compatible
with IBM Integration
Bus version 10.0.0.2
or later. Callable flows are compatible with IBM Integration
Bus version 10.0.0.4 or later.
For a list of the resources and message flow nodes that are supported
in BAR files that you upload to IBM Integration
Bus on Cloud, see Supported resources in BAR files.
For more information about how
to get started, see Getting started.
Last updated 2018-12-15 07:46:59
