Introduction to Kyndryl Bridge
Kyndryl Bridge is a cloud-native architecture that enables Develop, Build, Test, Deploy and generally manage Kyndryl Services for our customers and partner providers.
The goal of the service is to provide a subscription-based digital concierge to the world of Kyndryl services. This digital approach simplifies the management and growth of customer IT estates, reduces resource costs, encourages innovation and accelerates a customer's digital transformation journey.
Kyndryl Bridge is an open integration platform designed to help customers deploy and manage complex, heterogeneous, multi-cloud and hybrid IT estates. It combines technology consulting, delivery, and alliances expertise to allow access to default integrations, native partner collaboration, and a catalog of third-party services. Customers can easily explore and deploy new services, gain insight into improving business operations, and leverage the expertise of expert teams to help them innovate, expand and be more productive.
It offers a vast catalog of services categorized by service type. Each service comes with detailed descriptions that includes benefits, configurations, and other resources so you can learn the scope of the offerings and make smart decisions regarding your subscriptions. However, if more information is needed and you need more directions about the services, you can schedule a consultation call with a Kyndryl Bridge representative who can guide you throughout the process.
Thanks to the insights and recommendations from real-time analytics, technology leaders can grow their digital businesses, bridging estate composition, deploying new services, preventing downtime and forecasting future requirement sand costs more effectively. Work can be optimized with data and Artificial Intelligence, delivering improved outcomes and enabling a digital business with modern capabilities.
Kyndryl Bridge roles
Kyndryl Bridge employs a Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC) system for enabling appropriate access for individuals assigned those roles. A role comprises a collection of permissions allowed to create an Access Policy, it defines a set of actions and permissions that a user can perform within Bridge Core Service. You can also enable a subject (Users or Service ID) to perform a specific set of permissions on a resource. There are two different types of roles:
- Out of the Box roles (Administration Platform Roles and Services Roles):
- Administrator: Manages all access to Bridge Access Management. It is the role given to the first user of the platform.
- Editor: Has limited administrative access to Bridge Access Management.
- Viewer: Views public Bridge Access Management information and acts on their user IdP preferences.
- Operator: Performs platform actions required to configure and manage services.
- Custom Roles: Kyndryl Bridge allows you to combine the different actions that the out-of-the-box roles include.
For additional details on the roles available and permissions required to execute specific actions in Kyndryl Bridge, visit the Roles management page.
Kyndryl Bridge functions
As a customer looking to grow your IT estate, you can perform the following functions of Kyndryl Bridge:
- Onboard users: Understand the different Kyndryl Bridge Accounts.
- Set up the Enterprise account: Invite Users and define the corresponding Access Groups.
- Access the services catalog: Perform different requests (Managing consultations, Managing quotations or Managing subscriptions) from Services Catalog.
- Set my services: Grant access to the services and applications for the different resources.
- Manage requests: Manage the status of consultations, notifications, quotations, subscriptions, and support tickets. View a complete history thanks to all dashboards and widgets available in Console OverviewConsole.
- Manage audit services: Review all actions executed in Kyndryl Bridge from the Audit page.
- Contact Bridge Support: Contact them to resolve any critical issues.
Common Services in Kyndryl Bridge
Common Services are a set of curated base solutions, services and capabilities providing key added value by Kyndryl Bridge. They range from ordering, provisioning and delivering services to observability, telemetry and automation and come by default with your Kyndryl Bridge Enterprise account. These are services and applications that users can consume, including:
- Discovery Management
- Infrastructure & Cloud Inventory
- Discovered Data
- Infrastructure & Cloud Inventory
- Tagging Compliance Report
- Container Cluster Management
- Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations
- DevOps Intelligence