IBM unveiled a trio of new open source projects targeted at helping developers more quickly build cloud-native applications for Kubernetes. The moves come on the heels of the company closing its $34 billion acquisition of open source powerhouse Red Hat.
The new projects are Codewind, Appsody, and Kabanero. Appsody uses components from Codewind, while Kabanero uses components from both Codewind and Appsody.
Codewind provides extensions to integrated development environments (IDEs) like VS Code, Eclipse, and Eclipse Che to build applications in containers. It allows developers to iterate, debug, and performance test applications inside of containers similar to how those applications run in a production environment. IBM said that this essentially allows developers to build applications in containers without knowing they are working in containers.
Codewind is being managed by the Eclipse Foundation, which emerged from the Eclipse Project that IBM founded in late 2001. It’s focused on supporting Eclipse open source projects, with the most well known being the Eclipse multi-language software development environment platform.
Building a Platform
Appsody provides developers with pre-configured stacks and templates for a set of open source runtimes and frameworks. These can be used as a foundation to build applications for Kubernetes and Kubernetes-based Knative serverless deployments. IBM noted that this allows developers to focus on their code, reduces the learning curve for cloud-native deployments, and allows for quicker development for those applications.
The pre-configured stacks can be customized for specific development requirements. If customized, developers can then have a single point of control to roll out those changes to all applications built from that customized stack.
Kabanero is an end-to-end DevOps platform that integrates already established runtimes and frameworks with a Kubernetes-native DevOps toolchain. It supports the architecting, building, deploying, and lifecycle management of Kubernetes-based applications. This includes the ability to integrate security and to build pipelines into a customized stack to support governance and compliance requirements.
In addition to the other two new projects, Kabanero integrates the Knative serverless platform, Istio service mesh, Google-developed Tekton continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform, and IBM’s Razee multi-cluster continuous delivery tool.
Nate Ziemann, an IBM Cloud product manager, noted in a blog post that the integration is what sets Kabanero apart in the market.
“While there are open source projects that address individual aspects of what Kabanero addresses, no other open source project provides an integrated experience from the creation of a containerized cloud-native application through its production lifecycle on Kubernetes,” Ziemann wrote.
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