WebSphere Cloudburst and rational automation Framework for WebSphere

Building, deploying, and configuring the websphere® middleware application infrastructure, as well as applications running on that architecture, is a core task for enterprise IT organizations. The traditional methods of accomplishing these tasks are prone to problems and lead to inefficiencies and waste. These issues include:

Setting up and configuring the environment takes a long time.

It is not possible to rebuild the environment consistently as needed.

Need to test and developers have more infrastructure experience.

An integrated solution using the IBM WebSphere cloudburst appliance and Rational®automation Framework for WebSphere provides a virtualized, automated, data-driven approach to address these inefficiencies Problem.

WebSphere Cloudburst provides an easy way to model your application environment in the form of a WebSphere cloudburst pattern. You can use a graphical interface to build these patterns, which are based on ibm®hypervisor Edition virtual images. These images encapsulate many of the infrastructure experience required to build a WebSphere middleware environment, and you can deploy and initialize a complete, enterprise-ready environment within minutes. Most importantly, these patterns are stored on devices, which make it easier for us to rebuild the same environment consistently when necessary.

WebSphere Cloudburst addresses many of the requirements for a rapid and consistent deployment of a WebSphere application infrastructure, while the Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere configures applications and their infrastructure Dependencies provide a similar advantage.

The Rational automation Framework for WebSphere has more than 500 out-of-the-box and WebSphere configuration operations. These operations include configuring JDBC resources, setting up JMS queues, tuning application containers, deploying applications, and so on, almost everything.

First build the Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere project that contains any number of configuration steps, and then automate calls to that project for a target WebSphere unit. Therefore, you can implement configuration and deployment of your application and its dependencies without having to provide any script.

Although there may be functional overlap (Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere can be used to install WebSphere products, it does not support WebSphere Cloudburst Provides a model-based approach or rapid deployment capability, the effective integration of WebSphere Cloudburst and Rational automation Framework for WebSphere clearly highlights the best features and functionality for each product. Ultimately, a fast, efficient, automated, and repeatable process for setting up the application environment.

Figure 1 shows you the responsibilities of each software.

Figure 1. Responsibility delineation for WebSphere Cloudburst and Rational automation Framework

When and how to integrate

Now that we have established the reason for integrating the WebSphere Cloudburst and Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere, let's take a look at how and when to integrate the two solutions.

Implementing WebSphere Cloudburst Integration with the Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere is simple-especially in building WebSphere Cloudbur that represents the required WebSphere topology St mode and attaches the special script package to the Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere product.

The script package is the binder between the WebSphere Cloudburst deployment and the Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere. During deployment, the WebSphere Cloudburst invokes the integration script package, which results in the execution of the Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere project, which is created for Cloudburst Websphe Re unit. Figure 2 shows the interaction between the two programs.

Figure 2. WebSphere Cloudburst and Rational automation Framework for WebSphere integration diagram