192 Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Cloud Paks on IBM Power Systems: Volume 1
8.1  IBM Multicloud Manager: Container orchestration
IBM Multicloud Manager is used to manage OpenShift deployments across multicloud 
platforms.
8.1.1  IBM Multicloud Manager overview
There are many challenges that you will be faced with when trying to manage workloads 
across multiple cloud environments as you modernized your environment and adopted a 
hybrid and multicloud approach. You are looking at an enterprise out approach where you will 
take your on-premises environment that can be an private cloud and scale-out to a public 
cloud. You also might be looking at the cloud-in approach where you have a workload in a 
public cloud environment and want to connect it back to a datacenter.
Both of these approaches can be characterized as both hybrid and multicloud.
Whichever approach you take, the challenges remain the same:
/SM590000How can you develop modern cloud-native applications and integrate into your existing 
environments? 
/SM590000How can you monitor data movement and comply with appropriate governance 
regulations? 
/SM590000How can service management, security and compliance be maintained and monitored? 
IBM Multicloud Manager is designed facilitate the journey to cloud. Helping organizations 
orchestrate, manage, and monitor their containerized workloads across multiple data centers 
and public or private clouds allows your services to be managed as though they were a single 
unified environment. 
IBM Multicloud Manager supports multiple public cloud providers and private cloud 
environments:
/SM590000Public cloud providers:
–I B M  C l o u d
– Amazon Web Services
– Google Cloud Platform
– Microsoft Azure
/SM590000Private cloud:
– Red Hat OpenShift
– IBM Cloud Private
8.1.2  Key features and capabilities of IBM Multicloud Manager
In this section, we provide a high-level overview of some of the key features of IBM Multicloud 
Manager.