IBM Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment on IBM Cloud Private 3.2.1

Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment on IBM Cloud Private 3.2.1 continues its general availability, now using Cloud Foundry 6.10. Our continued focus is on bringing Cloud Foundry applications and native Kubernetes closer together as we work toward Cloud Foundry applications as pods (technical preview in IBM Public Cloud). This tightening integration is also showcased in our Spring Cloud and Cloud Provider Service capabilities.

IBM Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment continues to provide an enterprise console for managing your application and services. You can connect your environment through Open Service Brokers, and with this option you are not limited to a provider. You can use one or more cloud providers who publish Open Service Brokers to help round out your catalogue.

The community roots of Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment guarantees that your existing workload will continue to work. Not only is there application compatibility, but service and API consistency as well. These features allow for a seamless transition toward a Kubernetes infrastructure, while maintaining compatibility with your existing Cloud Foundry pipelines and services.

Being closer to Kubernetes has its advantages. As a platform hosting Cloud Foundry, the completely customizable nature of Kubernetes means that there are new networking, storage, and application possibilities. Now that middleware (IBM Container Services) can live on the same platform as the application, the complete set of application components can maintain a similar security and zone posture. Your application performance, reliability, and architecture all benefit from the simple convergence on Kubernetes.

As we continue to evolve the platform, Eirini’s use of native Kubernetes containers for Cloud Foundry applications will move front and center. This shift will help to strengthen the composition of your Cloud Foundry applications as services, network, containers, and scheduler all come directly from the Kubernetes platform.

With IBM’s Cloud Pak strategy, there hasn’t been a better time to be working with Cloud Foundry. All of the containerized middleware, automation, data services, and integration technology can be made available via the Cloud Foundry marketplace or user-defined services. You can have all the benefit of cloud services running right in your data center. IBM helps you bring together Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment and IBM Cloud Private, with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Integration, Applications, Automation, and Multicloud Management.

Special thanks to my editor Lindsay Martin.