Throughout this month, IBM and Microsoft have announced the availability of the IBM WebSphere Application Server on Azure Linux-based virtual machines.
This collaboration enables organizations to run enterprise Java workloads on Azure while also giving them access to various Azure services. The IBM WebSphere licenses can use the Azure hosting to support the microservices or standards-based application development process.
Reza Rahman, the principal program manager for Java on
had this to announce:The solution enables easy migration of WebSphere workloads to Azure by automating most of the boilerplate resource provisioning tasks to set up a highly available cluster of WebSphere servers on Azure Virtual Machine.
The IBM WebSphere Application Server, or in other words, its support, is an integral part of the general Azure collaborative effort between these two companies, where the products are jointly developed as well as supported. Discussing other Azure collaboration efforts, you have the Open Liberty on Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO), the WebSphere Liberty on Azure Red Hat OpenShift, the Open Liberty on the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and the WebSphere Liberty on the Azure Kubernetes Service.
Let’s look back at March of this year. We can see that Microsoft announced the availability of guidance to run IBM WebSphere Liberty as well as Open Liberty on Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), and this was said to enable a wide range of production-ready deployment architectures.
Furthermore, this, as well as other efforts, will be commercially available through the Azure Marketplace throughout the near future.
Rahman followed up with: In the next few months, IBM and Microsoft will also provide jointly developed and supported Marketplace solutions targeting WebSphere Liberty/Open Liberty on ARO and WebSphere Liberty/Open Liberty on AKS
Open Liberty is an open-source project for building cloud-native Java apps as well as microservices that is completely free to use. It works efficiently with Jakarta Enterprise Edition as well as Eclipse MicroProfile, that is used to develop as well as deploy cloud-native java apps.
The IBM productized version of Open Liberty is known as WebSphere Liberty, which supports the Java Enterprise Edition application server for building cloud apps and microservices, and IBM claims that its product license is portable between cloud service providers.
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In order to use IBM WebSphere Application Server on Azure Linux-based virtual machines, organizations will need to have the licensing in place for Microsoft as well as IBM.
Keep in mind that aside from all of this, Microsoft is offering free support when it comes to WebSphere migrations in Azure, which are free while the solutions are under active initial development.
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