Announcing the availability of IBM Mobile Foundation for Red Hat OpenShift Container platform
Krishnakumar Bala March 05, 2020
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We are happy to announce the availability of IBM Mobile Foundation for Red Hat® OpenShift Container Platform. Customers can now build multi-channel applications using Mobile Foundation and leverage the capabilities on OpenShift to deliver rich, secure and scalable applications using cloud-native technologies.
OpenShift offers a consistent hybrid cloud foundation for building and scaling containerized applications and 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. These components are tested together for unified operations on a complete Kubernetes platform spanning every cloud.
Mobile Foundation offers an industry-leading secured platform for developers to rapidly build and deploy the next generation of digital apps, including mobile, wearables, conversation, web, and PWAs. With Mobile Foundation, developers get containerized mobile back-end services covering comprehensive security, application life cycle management, push notifications, feature toggle, off-line sync, and back-end integration. The platform also ships a low-code tool for rapid application development called Digital App Builder, private app store, and rich SDKs for widely used mobile frameworks for both native and hybrid developers.
The options to use this platform are
- As part of IBM Cloud Pak for Applications.
- Use with your entitlement for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
IBM Cloud Pak for Applications offers an end-to-end, enterprise-ready experience to speed development of apps built for Kubernetes. Built on IBM® WebSphere® offerings and OpenShift Container Platform with IBM Accelerators for Teams, Cloud Pak for Applications provides a long-term solution to help you transition between public, private, and hybrid clouds, and create new business applications.
Customers can use the TradeUp option to move their existing licenses [ Application or Extend ] of Mobile Foundation to Virtual Processor Core licenses of Cloud Pak for Applications. For customers who do not want to TradeUp for the move to Cloud Pak for Applications, we have ensured they can use their existing entitlement for Mobile Foundation [ Application and Addressable Device licenses ] to run the Mobile Foundation environment on OpenShift. In this case, the customer needs to bring the entitlement for OpenShift to run Mobile Foundation Applications.
Get started by installing the product using the documentation and get your apps ready for cloud-native technologies.
Inclusive terminology note: The Mobile First Platform team is making changes to support the IBM® initiative to replace racially biased and other discriminatory language in our code and content with more inclusive language. While IBM values the use of inclusive language, terms that are outside of IBM's direct influence are sometimes required for the sake of maintaining user understanding. As other industry leaders join IBM in embracing the use of inclusive language, IBM will continue to update the documentation to reflect those changes.