Overview

IBM Cloud Pak® for Integration is a comprehensive set of software integration tools within a single, unified experience. Connect your applications, data, systems, and services, across cloud or on-premises environments, as part of a managed, scalable, and secure deployment that runs on Red Hat OpenShift.

Components of Cloud Pak for Integration

• Platform UI

  A user interface for creating instances of other Cloud Pak for Integration components and for connecting, managing, and deploying those instances. The user interface has multiple modes of interaction, including a graphical canvas where you can drag-and-drop integration components to build your integration solution visually.

• Assembly

  A component that enables you to connect, manage, and deploy multiple integrations as a single group. You can save an assembly, edit it, and share it.

• Automation assets

  A repository for storing integrations so that you can reuse and share them.

• IBM API Connect

  A scalable API platform for creating, socializing, managing, and monetizing APIs across clouds.

• IBM App Connect

  Authoring and hosting environments for creating, testing, sharing, and deploying workflows. You can use these environments to connect applications and data, assisted by AI, without having to write code.

• IBM MQ

  A messaging service that provides secure and reliable messaging with models such as point-to-point and publish/subscribe.

• Event endpoint management

  A service for describing, cataloging, and socializing Apache Kafka topics as event sources. When combined with IBM API Connect, this service offers discovery and self-service access to APIs and events in one portal.

• IBM Event Streams

  A messaging service for handling real-time data feeds, based on the Apache Kafka project.

• IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server

  A file transfer system for transferring files and data sets of any size quickly, reliably, and securely.

• IBM DataPower Gateway

  An application gateway for adding security, control, integration, and optimized access to your workloads.

• IBM Cloud Pak foundational services

  A component that provides common services across IBM Cloud Paks.

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

  Red Hat OpenShift delivers a comprehensive solution for hybrid cloud, enterprise container, and Kubernetes development and deployments. It includes an enterprise-grade Linux® operating system, container runtime, networking, monitoring, container registry, authentication, and authorization solutions.

Prerequisites

In Installing on IBM Cloud, review these sections:

• Before you begin
• 1. Obtain a license
• 2. Assign a license
• 3. Configure installation settings

Required Resources

For sizing, environment, and storage requirements, see System requirements.

Installing

Review the information in the Summary pane. Read and accept the IBN Cloud Pak for Integration license agreement, then click Install. The installation takes approximately 30 minutes to 1 hour to complete.

Configuration

The following table lists the configurable parameters and their default values.

Limitations

For solutions to limitations you may encounter when using Cloud Pak for Integration, see Known limitations.

Documentation

Get started with the Cloud Pak for Integration documentation in Deploying instances.