Event Endpoint Management continues to be enhanced

Event Endpoint Management continues to be available and enhanced as part of IBM's integration platforms.

End of Marketing announcement for IBM Event Automation

Event Streams and Event Processing are deprecated and no enhancements will be provided. Support and security fixes will be provided in line with published support lifecycle policies. Future event-driven solutions that make use of Apache Kafka and Flink will be delivered by IBM Confluent Platform.

For more information, see the support lifecycle transition and software ordering completion announcement.

Attention: This version of Event Streams has reached End of Support. For more information about supported versions, see the support matrix.

Trying out Event Streams

To try out Event Streams, you have the following options:

  • Create a subscription for a fully managed Kafka service on IBM Cloud.

  • Install Event Streams on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for development purposes or to set up Kafka for production use, and benefit from both the support of IBM and the open-source community.

    Event Streams comes with a host of useful features such as a user interface (UI) to help you get started with Kafka and help operate a production cluster, geo-replication of topics between clusters, a schema registry to enforce correct and consistent message formats, a catalog of connectors, converters, and transformations for Kafka Connect, and more.

  • Use Strimzi if you want to install your own basic Kafka cluster on Kubernetes for testing and proof-of-concept purposes.

    As Event Streams is based on Strimzi, you can easily move your deployment to Event Streams later, and keep your existing configurations and preferences from the Strimzi setup. Moving to Event Streams adds the benefit of full enterprise-level support from IBM.