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Running Liberty applications in IBM Cloud Private

Run Liberty applications in a secure cloud-based environment that facilitates the development of applications in a shared, multitenant environment and supports both Linux 64-bit on x86 and Linux on Power® 64-bit LE architectures.

Before you begin

To run Liberty applications in IBM Cloud Private, you must at minimum Install IBM® Cloud Private, which is an application platform for developing and managing on-premises, containerized applications. It is an integrated environment for managing containers that includes the container orchestrator Kubernetes, a private image repository, a management console, and monitoring frameworks.

You must also have a Liberty application that you want to deploy. The Liberty app accelerator generates a basic application that you can build and deploy to a Liberty server. Read more about this option in the Microservice Builder section.

About this task

This task is about using Microservice Builder or manually updating the Liberty Helm chart to accomplish the goal of deploying Liberty applications in IBM Cloud Private.
Microservice Builder

Use Microservice Builder if you want to develop an automated flow into a Devops pipeline. With Microservice Builder, you can use Liberty app accelerator to generate a basic application that you can build and deploy to a Liberty server. When updates are made to your Git repository, the appropriate Maven build starts, along with acceptance tests or function verification tests that you defined. Then, your applications are deployed into IBM Cloud Private.

Using Microservice Builder, which is based on the open MicroProfile programming model, automates the manual steps to build, deploy, and manage applications in IBM Cloud Private. See the Microservice Builder website for more information about creating applications in the microservices framework.

Helm charts

The fast path for deploying Liberty applications in IBM Cloud Private is to use Helm charts. The Catalog interface provides a centralized location from which you can browse and install Helm chart packages into your Kubernetes containers.

Liberty for Java in IBM Cloud Private Cloud Foundry

When you deploy an application to IBM Cloud Private Cloud Foundry, the Cloud Foundry environment invokes a corresponding buildpack that supports your application type. The Liberty for Java buildpack creates a runtime environment for Java EE7 and OSGi applications on Liberty in IBM Cloud Private. You can use this buildpack included with IBM Cloud Private Cloud Foundry to deploy applications and bind them to services that are hosted in either IBM Cloud Private environment or elsewhere. See the Liberty for Java buildpack content in IBM Cloud Private for more information about deploying applications with buildpacks.

Passport Advantage® images for IBM Cloud Private that you download already have the appropriate license. However, you must also upgrade Liberty Community Edition to the appropriate license level to run your custom Docker images.

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