[17.0.0.3 and later]

Overview: Liberty apps that run in IBM Cloud Private

Liberty supports the full Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 7, which provides a number of improvements over previous Java EE versions.

IBM Cloud Private provides the underlying foundation that enables the agile application creation deployment. It is based on a Kubernetes platform, and provide services for loosely coupled, distributed, and elastic microservice-based applications.

Moreover, it provides a unifying platform for industrial-quality IBM middleware. IBM Cloud Private also provides a set of services, integrated middleware, with a common logging and monitoring set of services.

Liberty fits into this environment as a componentized application development and deployment environment that you can deploy quickly in IBM Cloud Private.

The following cycle defines the high-level process that is needed to for running Liberty applications in IBM Cloud Private. First, you must start with a simple application. Next, with a Dockerfile, the Docker image is built. The Docker image is exported to a registry such a Docker hub, from which the IBM Cloud Private installation process can provision it into the Docker container, where the application runs.


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