IBM Cloud Foundry 3.1.1 in Private Cloud
This release continues the alignment with community releases, giving customers the latest capabilities and security patches. The BOSH infrastructure has been transitioned to BOSH deployment and Cloud Foundry has been updated to the latest community levels. AWS support has been enabled as a technical preview, and the release also includes updates to IBM buildpacks, ELK platform logging, and an improved local service catalog. The installer has also been enhanced to further improve the ease and accuracy with which you can manage a deployment’s configuration.
AWS technical preview
AWS infrastructure support has been enabled in IBM Cloud Foundry 3.1.1. This improves the multi-cloud support which already includes VMware and OpenStack. The deployment time for AWS is similar to the other IaaS’s and is the same fully configured Cloud Foundry enterprise customers have grown to expect. The solution can also be extended using AWS load balancers and services (via AWS OSB’s).
Installer enhancements
The graphical installer continues to improve, now bringing configuration forms, so that all parameters are displayed and validated, making sure your IBM Cloud Foundry deployment will proceed smoothly. The installer console also supports embedded and custom configuration extensions, allowing the user interface to adjust to user provided extensions, making configuring your customizations and enhancements a breeze.
Elk Shared Logging Infrastructure
You can now use the shared ELK logging platform to manage platform logs. Elk allows the log messages from the platform to be searched, monitored, and alerted. Messages such as component errors and user access failures are captured and stored in the IBM Cloud Private platform logging tool. This shared infrastructure offers immediate log storage allowing the environment to be fully functional with no external logging infrastructure requirement at deployment time.
Local Services via Kubernetes
The Open Service Broker support for IBM Cloud Private Kubernetes continues to expand. Now as part of the installation service engagement, additional non-data services can be exposed in the Cloud Foundry marketplace for consumption from the Kubernetes environment.
End-to-End Solution
IBM Cloud Foundry 3.1.1 is a complete solution that provides a cloud runtime, platform logging, monitoring, alerting, local data services, public cloud service, and IBM buildpacks, and is available in a single package. It takes only hours to go from zero to a complete platform as a service solution. IBM Cloud Foundry 3.1.1 brings you all the capabilities of the community, with IBM services, logging, monitoring, and support.
