IBM API Connect v5/v2018 is going out of support!!!
IBM API Connect is an award winning complete, modern and intuitive API lifecycle platform to create, securely expose, manage and test APIs across clouds to power digital applications. It has three versions in the market: V10 (latest), V2018 and V5.0.x(oldest). Therefore, no surprise to hear that the End of Support(EOS) for the two oldest versions
API Connect V5 is already End of Support (EOS) after April 30, 2022 . Support Extensions are available for purchase through December 31, 2022.
V2018 will end after April 30, 2023.
By then, everyone using IBM API Connect V5 and APIC 2018 should upgrade to the new version – APIC v10.
V10 – Deployment Options
VMWare OVA support for clients to run on their existing established enterprise virtualization platform
New Docker-based images with K8 orchestration for container-based deployments on a customer managed K8 environment and OpenShift Container Platforms
API Gateway available in hardened cloud, virtual and physical appliance form factors to improve security and time to value
Unmatched scalability and performance through new container and microservices based design
Independently scale API Connect components leveraging container orchestration tools
V10s Improved Resiliency for Continuous Availability
Enterprise secure and cloud native install experience with Operators
High resiliency with two data-center clustering mapping to your infrastructure
Self-healing for continuous availability of the micro services within API Connect
Simplified and automated backup & restore reducing operations overhead
V10s Performance Improvements
Performance enhancements in every subsystem of the product (API Manager, Portal, Gateway, etc.)
Faster creation of provider organizations and auto-publishing of APIs
Optimized search runtime on User Interface
We can assist you with making critical decisions below for the ease of migration
Location: OnPremises, Cloud or Hybrid Deployment
Deployment form factor: OVAs, OpenShift or other K8s platform
Topology: HA and DR
Gateway Service native API Gateway or v5c
Licensing
Timeframe
Migration planning, execution & cutover
Our Offerings
Installation of IBM API Connect v10 on any Cloud Provider/Red Hat OpenShift/On-Premises both in HA and DR architecture
V5/v2018 to v10 migration and cutover
API Architecture white boarding and provide technical blueprint including HA and DR
Deployment across Multi-Cloud Platform
GraphQL, REST and SOAP API Implementations
API Security using Mutual TLS, OAuth, OIDC & JWT
API Toolkit & Dev Ops approaches
Custom policy development using DataPower API Gateway
