In Chapter 1, IBM® SmartCloud®, we covered the IBM® SmartCloud® portfolio and learned what IBM has to offer in terms of cloud computing solutions. Chapter 2 to Chapter 4 covered more specifically what IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise has to offer, where we have seen that it offers rapid provisioned, self-service, elastic, and on demand infrastructure services in a pay-for-use model. But wouldn't it be great if you would be able to extend these infrastructure services with an application stack that, just as fast, delivers the functionality that you require—without having to install the application yourself?
In Chapter 2, IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise, we already briefly covered that IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise has the ability to create and upload your own images in the image catalog, which we detailed in Chapter 3, Getting Started and Chapter 4, Advanced Use-cases. This chapter will cover the prebuilt images that offer off-the-shelf solutions based on IBM...