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Workspace IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect
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Created on Apr 26, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

Ship zAPM Connect Distributed Gateway binaries for customers to build images on top of customer-supplied base OS image

Usage of third-party pre-built images can have security or compliance issues in some enterprise customers.  Company build pipelines can be mandatory, particularly where security guardrails built into CI/CD processes ensure vulnerability and end-of-support status of libraries and components.    In some cases reference OS images are demanded for software installation (IBM/Red Hat RHEL8.9 or 9.3, for example).

A very high percentage of vulnerabilities eventually crop up in the base OS layer and not the native zAPM software itself; some internal scans showed 90%+ of vulnerabilities were the unpatched OS several months after initial IBM release.   Providing zAPM Connect DG with options to assemble the components in an internal enterprise CI pipeline for deployment would cut out a huge number of ongoing vulnerabilities in zAPM images where they are behind the latest OS patch levels, or at least allow management of the vulnerability cleanup/patching with the customer. 

Adding support for major middleware component instances to be customer-updated would also help remediation, such as for Kafka and Redis.

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