IBM Cloud Paks

Foundational Services
Overview (Level 1)

Christopher Bienko
Worldwide Technology Sales
IBM IT Infrastructure
cdbienko@us.ibm.com
Table of Contents

 A Platform for Hybrid Multicloud

 Evolution of IBM Cloud Paks
 IBM Cloud Paks Foundational Services

 Roadmap
 Appendix
A Platform
for Hybrid
Multicloud
A Platform for Hybrid Multicloud
Common services, containers, and an orchestration platform
together enable modernized application services that are ready
for the hybrid multicloud world.

IBM Cloud Pak Platform*

IBM Cloud Paks Software and SaaS

Automate • Predict • Secure Partners & Integrators

Run any workload

IBM Cloud Paks Foundational Services
Common Services

Infuse AI
throughout Red Hat OpenShift + RHEL Run in containers
our software Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes Orchestration
Watson

Infrastructure Run anywhere

IBM Cloud • Public & Private Cloud • IBM Systems • Enterprise Infrastructure • Edge

*Not an approved offering name or official statement of direction.

A Platform for Hybrid Multicloud

Run Anywhere
IBM Cloud Pak Platform*
• Run on-premises, in different form factors and across a variety of hardware architectures,
as well as off-premises in the cloud (IBM Cloud, as well as other vendors)

• Modern containerized apps that follow the axiom of "write once, run anywhere" are able
to migrate fluidly across a wide range of hybrid multicloud architectures

Run Any Workload

Infuse AI
• Support any type of application: not just new cloud-native apps, but also existing throughout
our software
investment footprints and enterprise services Watson

Run In Containers
• Enterprise faces more hurdles to overcome than most when it comes to application
modernization with containers

• True enterprise platform has unique requirements for availability, resiliency, & security
that are often overlooked (or naively implemented) by nascent open source projects

*Not an approved offering name or official statement of direction.

Evolution of
IBM Cloud
Paks
Evolution of IBM Cloud Paks

Continually refining the architecture to bring it to where it needs to be in order to support the hybrid multicloud
workloads expected by our customers
• IBM isn't throwing things away and starting from scratch with Cloud Paks and Foundational Services — rather, these
refinements put us further on the path to building a Cloud Paks Platform that we are ultimately moving towards

Changes are designed to improve consistency of platform experiences with how customers interact
with IBM’s offerings:
• The tools our customers use

• The operations they can perform

• The user interface they work upon

For users of the platform, they benefit from increased development efficiencies across all of IBM Cloud &
Cognitive Software and IBM Systems offerings — with tighter integrations between Cloud Paks, as we move
away from "vertical" silos towards "flat" horizontal architectures

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IBM Cloud Paks
Automate Predict Secure

• Customer Experience • Data Modernization • Advanced Threat Detection

• Business Ops • Data Ops • Data Security
• Workforce Management • AI Lifecycle Management • Incident Response
• App and Infrastructure Stability • Data Warehousing • Threat Hunting
• Platform Ops • Trusted and Distributed AI • Risk Management
• Optimize AI Ops • Continuous Integrated Financial Planning
• Hybrid Cloud Integration • Operational and IT Risk Management
• Real-Time Interactions • Customer Service Automation
• Transactional Integrity • Textual / Document Analysis
• Site Deployment Automation
• 4G/5G Telco Cloud Platform
• NFV Lifecycle Management

Cloud Pak Cloud Pak Cloud Pak Cloud Pak

for Business for Watson for for Network IBM Cloud Pak for Data IBM Cloud Pak for Security
Automation AIOps Integration Automation

IBM Cloud Paks Foundational Services

Red Hat OpenShift + RHEL

Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes Orchestration

Public Cloud Enterprise

IBM Cloud AWS • Azure • GCP • Other
IBM Systems Edge 8
Infrastructure
Verticals to Horizontals

Red Hat OpenShift remains very much the core of this platform, with common Foundational Services
sitting atop of this platform to interoperate capabilities with the IBM Cloud Paks
• A common pain point with earlier Cloud Paks iterations was that they were relatively isolated and siloed

• Early architecture was too "vertical" and hard to integrate across the various Cloud Paks

IBM Cloud Paks now organized based on aggregations of capabilities for Data, Security, and Automation,
in support of specific personas and customers
• Security and Data pillars existed as standalone Cloud Paks previously

• Newly-created Automation pillar contains multiple Cloud Paks (Business Automation, Watson AIOps, Integration,
and Network Automation) tailored for specific use cases

Beneath the applications and Cloud Paks is the set of core, common, shared services — called the
Cloud Paks Foundational Services or (in brief) Foundational Services
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IBM Cloud
Paks
Foundational
Services
IBM Cloud Paks Foundational Services
IBM Cloud Paks
Automate • Predict • Secure

IBM Cloud Paks Foundational Services

Certification and Governance for Enterprise Standards

Application Data & Event Operational Security User Experience

Services Services Services Services Services

• API/Endpoint Library • Execution Engines • Metering • IAM • UI/UX Standards

• Notifications • Kafka Service • Licensing • Vault Service • App Lifecycle UI
• Behavior Analytics • Repositories • Logging & Monitoring • Threat Detection • Bedrock Admin Hub
• Gateway / Front Door • Databases • Operator-based • Audit Log • Job Scheduling
Lifecycle Management (Compliance) • Extensible UI
• Service Mapping • Certificate Framework &
Framework Management Extension Registry
• Bedrock Storage Map (ZenRock)

Red Hat OpenShift + RHEL

Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes Orchestration

Public Cloud Enterprise

IBM Cloud AWS • Azure • GCP • Other
IBM Systems Edge 11
Infrastructure
Foundational Services — 5 Key Pillars
IBM Cloud Paks Foundational Services

Certification and Governance for Enterprise Standards

Application Data & Event Operational Security User Experience

Services Services Services Services Services

The foundational Foundational Services (accessible by each of the IBM Cloud Paks) represent aggregations
of microservices, technologies, and capabilities.
Foundational Services can be organized into 5 distinct pillars:
Application Services, Security Services, Operational Services, User Experience, and Data Services
• Each pillar of services support a common, consistent operational experience, user experience, and integration experience

• Not every Platform Service will be transparent to end-users or customers, but each service will directly (or indirectly) benefit
those audiences

• These services are not something that can be purchased from a catalog — they are embedded as part of the IBM Cloud
Paks experience on top of OpenShift (and eventually the Cloud Paks Platform)
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Certification for Kubernetes & IBM Cloud Paks

Production Grade Security Quality Assurance Lifecycle Management

• Multicloud • Vulnerability Management • Comprehensive Testing • Patching

• Storage • Limited Security Privilege • Architectures • Upgradeability
• Networking • Secure Access, Keys, Certs • OpenShift Versions • Rollback/Restore
• Resiliency • Network & Data Protection • Currency • Backup/Recovery
• Scalability • Secrets and SPI • Airgap • OCP Version Alignment
• Self-Healing • Security and Privacy by Design • Upgrades • Kubernetes Currency

Standards and Governance

• Red Hat Operators and Helm Support • ~200 Enforced Code Standards
• Consistent Packaging and Publishing • Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI)
• Consistent Entitlement Management • Consistent Use of OpenShift and IBM Services
• Common Management of Open Source Software • Governed Best-Practices and Anti-Practices

Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes Orchestration Platform

• End-to-End Support
• Managed Container Images
• Image Packaging and Publishing
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Certification for Kubernetes & IBM Cloud Paks

Certification provides consistency across every aspect of the platform: consistency in user experience,
consistency in operations, and consistency with how resources are deployed (and consumed) through
IBM Cloud Paks once activated
• Certification is a key element of the common Foundational Services layer

• Enterprise requires production grade resources — which are often sorely lacking from "vanilla" open source flavors of
Kubernetes orchestration, containers, and open frameworks

Standards across IBM and Red Hat eliminate the risk and waste of resources that might come from two
teams duplicating the efforts of one another
• The intention is never to replicate anything that's already in OpenShift (or duplicate ongoing work)

• Codifying how we synchronize releases of Cloud Paks and Red Hat offerings smooths administration of the Platform
(internally) and improves customer experience (externally)

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Roadmap
Roadmap for Cloud Paks Foundational Services

Check Seismic for the latest on roadmaps and statements of direction.

https://ibm.seismic.com/Link/Content/DCPTGyCvjVhUidCzTIR79Yxw

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IBM & BPs Only

Roadmap for Cloud Paks Foundational Services

In support of being truly portable and hybrid, IBM Cloud Paks need to run anywhere and everywhere that
businesses need (or want) to be.

IBM Cloud Paks will gradually transition from a series of siloed verticals into a horizontally-integrated
environment: in other words, a Cloud Pak Platform*
• “Pluggability” is key: take advantage of services that already exist in a vendor’s public cloud, rather than having to
carry over a massive cartload of IBM Cloud services into foreign clouds for every deployment

• IBM has untangled the string of dependencies for current and future releases of the common Foundational Services,
primarily by making use of Red Hat Operators

• A number of IBM Cloud Paks functions already fully based on Operators and more will continue to be deployed in
this way as the roadmap evolves

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*Not an approved offering name or official statement of direction.

Roadmap for Cloud Paks as a Service (CPaaS) and Satellite
Delivery of Cloud Paks as a managed service on IBM Cloud, known as Cloud Paks as a Service (CPaaS),
and on to other vendor’s clouds (via IBM Cloud Satellite) are roadmap items for 2021-2022.

IBM Cloud IBM Cloud services, delivered

Satellite Link and managed anywhere.

IBM Cloud Customer Location

Cloud Paks as a Service Cloud Paks as a Service

CPaaS — Managed by IBM CPaaS 2021-22 Roadmap
IBM-managed

Red Hat OpenShift

Locations Mesh

Config Ops Customer-managed Host Host … Host

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Roadmap for Cloud Paks as a Service (CPaaS) and Satellite
Cloud Paks as a Service (CPaaS) delivers an IBM-managed Cloud Paks experience on IBM Cloud
• Currently (2Q21) support for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
• Upcoming (+2Q21) support for IBM Cloud Pak for Automation and IBM Cloud Pak for Security

IBM Cloud Satellite will deliver public IBM Cloud services (including IBM Cloud Paks and Foundational
Services), managed by IBM, to any public cloud (or customer’s cloud)

• Currently under development and a roadmap item for 2021–2022

• Will incorporate IBM Cloud Paks, Red Hat OpenShift, and other public cloud services from IBM Cloud

• Fully-managed CPaaS will aid in delivery of Satellite, hence why CPaaS is prioritized in roadmap

Cloud Paks as a Service IBM Cloud Satellite

IBM Cloud Customer Cloud / Public Cloud Vendor

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Appendix
Key Contacts Chuck Bryan
Product Manager, Hybrid Multicloud and
IBM Cloud Paks and Open Source Solutions
cbryan@us.ibm.com
Red Hat OpenShift
Andre Tost
Distinguished Engineer and CTO
IBM Cloud Paks Architecture
andretost@us.ibm.com

Joe Cropper
STSM, Cognitive Systems Hybrid Multicloud
jwcroppe@us.ibm.com

Manoj Kumar
Chief Engineer, OpenShift and OpenStack on Power
kumarmn@us.ibm.com

Lisa Vogelman
Worldwide Sales, Cloud Solutions for Power Systems
vogelmal@us.ibm.com

Christopher Bienko
Worldwide Sales Enablement, Red Hat & Cloud Paks
cdbienko@us.ibm.com
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