Integrate apps with Red Hat OpenShift and Mulesoft Anypoint Platform

Organizations need to quickly adapt to changing customer demands and deliver innovation with unprecedented speed. Application programming interfaces (APIs) and application integration are central to this effort, helping developers optimize user experiences, create dynamic digital ecosystems, streamline operations, and build platform business models. In turn, API management becomes a critical yet challenging element of a digital business strategy—the average organization runs more than 976 applications and only 28% are integrated.¹ Many organizations are turning to containers and Kubernetes technology to better manage applications by standardizing the enterprise and increasing application portability between environments.

Red Hat® OpenShift®, the most widely deployed multicloud container platform, and MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, a leading integration and API platform, can help solve these obstacles with a standardized, integrated solution that provides flexibility without compromising security to grow and innovate at speed.

IT environments are expanding and growing in complexity resulting in disparate systems that require more people and processes to manage. As a Mulesoft customer, Red Hat OpenShift can improve your user experience by accelerating application integration to speed time to market, automating deployment, and managing Kubernetes workloads at scale, so you can get a return on your resource investments in less time. 

Accelerate application integration with a flexible OpenShift platform

Created for an open hybrid cloud strategy, Red Hat OpenShift is an enterprise-ready container platform built around Kubernetes that includes tools for infrastructure and operations and a full developer experience. Delivering speed and flexibility on-premise, across cloud environments, and to the edge, Red Hat OpenShift allows you to choose where you build, deploy, and run applications. 

Automate deployment with OpenShift certified operators

Red Hat OpenShift and MuleSoft Anypoint Platform can help you better manage the application integration process by combining Red Hat OpenShift’s 200 certified operators with MuleSoft Exchange’s prebuilt assets, templates, and more than 350 out-of-the box connectors. MuleSoft Accelerators also present collections of technical assets to accelerate the implementation of common application connectivity use cases. 

Reduce complexity with managed Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat OpenShift is available as a managed service for hyperscale cloud providers. For example, Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS and Microsoft Azure on Red Hat OpenShift are co-managed and supported offerings that help customers make the most of their cloud spending and IT resources. As a Red Hat OpenShift Certified Operator, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform helps manage and safeguard any API, built and deployed anywhere, to reduce API sprawl anywhere you can run OpenShift.

Modernizing a portfolio of legacy applications can be challenging and costly for organi- zations that have multiple types of applications—some that can be modernized, some built from scratch, or some that are better left alone. Other customers have applications in multiple cloud environments. Mulesoft Anypoint Platform running on Red Hat OpenShift makes it less complex to connect applications, so you can deploy modern digital experiences for your customers anywhere.

Boost performance with DevOps and CI/CD

Built to integrate simpler with DevOps and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) workflows, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform delivers the performance required for the most demanding applications, and Red Hat OpenShift provides API security capabilities and governance across any environment.

Increase security capabilities throughout the API life cycle

Streamline application development while providing advanced, enterprise-grade security capabilities throughout the API life cycle. Red Hat OpenShift allows end-to-end management and observability across an entire architecture, API authentication and authorization, out-of- the-box security policies, industry standards and certifications, and dashboard governance.

Deploy digital experiences

Red Hat OpenShift helps Mulesoft Anypoint Platform users gain the flexibility to build new application integrations and run third-party independent software vendor (ISV) applications. You can now take advantage of the integration capabilities of Mulesoft while benefiting from Red Hat OpenShift public cloud services, using containers, DevOps, and API-led integration. This can help your organization create and deploy security-focused integration experiences, modernize applications at scale, and reduce operational costs.

Containers and Kubernetes promote enterprise standardization, application portability between environments, and reduce cost and risk. Red Hat OpenShift and MuleSoft Anypoint Runtime Fabric (RTF) offer a trusted cloud solution that helps you standardize your cloud experience across multicloud and hybrid environments.

Boost your applications with support from recognized leaders

Red Hat OpenShift and MuleSoft RTF offer flexibility, agility, security-focused capability, and a consistent development experience. Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of commercial open source solutions and is used by more than 90% of the Fortune 500 organizations, and Red Hat OpenShift is recognized as the leader in container software with a 47% market share. ⁴ Red Hat works with a trusted ecosystem of global system integrators like IBM, Accenture, Deloitte, CapGemini, and PwC, who provide expertise in implementing Mulesoft and OpenShift platforms.

Standardize on scalable, interoperable software platforms

Red Hat OpenShift promotes interoperability and standardization with reusable building blocks that simplify management and accelerate future projects. The Kubernetes-based, enterprise open source platform makes it suitable for operations teams and portable across different infrastructures and cloud environments. Red Hat OpenShift offers consolidated management, so you can manage variations of software versions, container orchestration, operating systems, tooling, and developer experience between providers.

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