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Overview

IBM DevOps Solution Workbench helps you to accelerate design and development of enterprise-grade cloud solutions.

From \idea to {code}​

IBM DevOps Solution Workbench is a software design tool for cross-functional agile development. It unites AI-assisted and real-time collaborative architecture modeling, detailed design specifications, and direct connections to automated code generation, optimized for cloud-native applications. By automating and templating recurring solution patterns with modern architecture principles, teams can initiate projects faster, tailor technology stacks to their needs, and rely on a consistent foundation of platform services.

The shared design workspace aligns domain experts, developers, architects, and operations to a single source of truth. Architectural decisions are documented, transformed into cohesive models, and validated with specialized design tooling so that every project reuses the same standards and best practices.

Because design intent is continuously linked to built-in code automation, chosen coding assistants, and delivery tooling, generated code stays synchronized with the modeled architecture. Developers focus on business logic while the platform propagates changes, enforces quality gates, and keeps productivity high throughout the build-run lifecycle.

Example use cases​

Launch new cloud-native services faster

Kick off projects with AI-assisted modeling, ready-to-use stacks, and automated code generation so teams can move from concept to deployable service faster.

Modernize distributed business domains

Map legacy capabilities into cohesive domain models, reuse proven blueprints, and regenerate service implementations as requirements evolve without rewriting from scratch.

Operate a synchronized design-to-code workspace

Keep architecture decisions, generated code, and delivery pipelines in lockstep, giving cross-functional teams a single source of truth from design through run operations.

Product components​

Solution Designer​

Organize your project. Model your architecture. Design your solution.

The Solution Designer comprises a set of dedicated tools that allow solution creators, i.e. domain experts, architects and developers, to work together seamlessly via a shared repository to iteratively design and improve your software architecture. Design decisions can be documented, shared, and visualized via diagrams to create one single source of truth for implementation.

Solution Designer features standardized design tools, which for example can be used to model business domains following the principles of Domain Driven Design. Developers can use these projects to implement software based on the domain specification. Changes to the domain model will automatically be reflected in the generated code, so that developers can securely adapt the implementation to changed specifications.

Furthermore, Solution Designer provides shared assets to capture internal expertise, reuse domain specifications, or import prebuilt specifications to jump-start new implementation projects.

In the Solution Designer, you can...

  • Manage projects and shared assets
  • Organize your project and maintain your service model
  • Design your software in the modeling tool from start to finish
  • Continuously integrate, deliver, and deploy your k5-projects

Read more about Solution Designer.

Solution CLI​

Create your implementation.

IBM DevOps Solution Workbench brings its own CLI tool to push and pull code from and to the Git repository, test and debug from a local machine into the OpenShift or Kubernetes cluster and to keep the SDKs up to date.

Read more about Solution CLI.