Overview

IBM Cloud Pak® for Integration brings together proven, best-in-class capabilities to deliver a streamlined integration solution. Once installed, IBM Cloud Pak for Integration handles monitoring, maintenance and upgrades, helping your enterprise stay ahead of the innovation curve. Cloud Pak for Integration can be installed by itself or with other Cloud Paks within the Automation Base Pak.

This solution simplifies deployment, management, and maintenance of your hybrid cloud environment.

IBM Cloud Pak for Integration offers:

  • Deployment and navigation interface - Deploy and manage new instances of the Cloud Pak capabilities and runtimes and easily navigate between them with Platform Navigator.
  • IBM Cloud Pak foundational services - Access services for authentication, logging, and monitoring, as well as features for managing users and user profile settings. (These services were called "Common services" in Cloud Pak for Integration 2020.4.)
  • Automation assets - Store, manage, and retrieve integration assets. (This capability was called "Asset repository" in Cloud Pak for Integration 2020.4.)
  • Integration tracing - Trace your transactions across Cloud Pak for Integration with Operations Dashboard.
  • API management - Manage your APIs with API Connect.
  • Integration design - Create integration flows with App Connect Designer.
  • Integration dashboard - Deploy integration servers with App Connect Dashboard.
  • Messaging - Get robust, reliable messaging services with MQ Advanced.
  • Event Endpoint Management - Describe your application that produces events to Kafka topics as an event source, and socialize the event source details with application developers.
  • Event Streams - Stream your events with Kafka.
  • Gateway - Access security, control, and a full range of additional services with DataPower® Gateway.
  • High speed transfer server - Transfer files of any size quickly, reliably, and securely with Aspera® HSTS.

Once you log in, you have access to all installed Cloud Paks. Cloud Pak for Integration provides integration capabilities and runtimes via the Platform Navigator, without requiring additional login activity.

Platform Navigator

Supported Cloud Environments

In addition to on-premises installations, IBM Cloud Pak for Integration also runs in these cloud environments.
  • IBM® Cloud
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Amazon AWS
  • Google Cloud Platform
On these cloud platforms, Cloud Pak for Integration can run:
  • as software installations in the IaaS layer.
  • on managed OpenShift services such as Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud and Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
Note: These platforms must meet the necessary minimum system requirements for Cloud Pak for Integration, such as the correct OpenShift version. See System requirements for more information.

Installation of Multiple Cloud Paks

IBM supports installation of Cloud Pak for Integration with other Cloud Paks on the same OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) cluster.