Red Hat Fuse is an open source integration platform based on Apache Camel. It is a distributed integration platform that provides a standardized methodology, infrastructure, and tools to integrate services,

microservices A microservice architecture – a variant of the service-oriented architecture structural style – is an architectural pattern that arranges an application as a collection of loosely-coupled, fine-grained services, communicating through lightw ...

, and application components. Red Hat Fuse is a distributed integration platform designed for agile integration with standalone, cloud, and

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deployment options so integration experts, application developers, and business users can independently develop connected solutions in the environment of their choosing. The unified platform lets users collaborate, business units self-serve, and organizations ensure governance.

Technology

Red Hat Fuse supports Spring Boot,

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and

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for use in enterprise IT organizations. It has a pluggable architecture that allows individuals to use their preferred software services in a traditional

service-oriented architecture In software engineering, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that focuses on discrete services instead of a monolithic design. By consequence, it is also applied in the field of software design where services are provided ...

(SOA) or a

-based architecture. Fuse components may be deployed on-premises or in public/private clouds.

Key features

* ''Hybrid deployment'' - use Red Hat Fuse on-prem, in public/private clouds, or as a hosted service and have all integration infrastructure work seamlessly allowing users to collaborate across the enterprise. * ''Distributed infrastructure'' - Integrations, built from predefined Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIPs) and over 2000 connectors, are deployed on container-native infrastructure to adapt easily and scale quickly. * ''Low-code interface'' - tooling allows developers and non-technical users to drag and drop predefined services and integration patterns so business units can self-serve and continuously innovative.

History

Fuse was originally built by LogicBlaze, and was later acquired by

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in 2007. IONA was acquired by

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in 2008, and the open-source group was later spun out into its own entity, FuseSource Corporation. In June 2012,

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Inc. announced that it had acquired FuseSource from Progress Software.{{Cite web, url=http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2012/6/red-hat-to-acquire-fusesource, title = Red Hat to Acquire FuseSource Following the acquisition, Fuse ESB was rebranded as Red Hat JBoss Fuse and became available for download at the developer website or the Red Hat customer portal. The name was then simplified to just Red Hat Fuse.

Deployment Options

*
Fuse Standalone
' - for on-premises deployment *
Fuse on OpenShift
' - deployed in a public or private cloud on Red Hat OpenShift where containers are automatically provisioned and managed *
Fuse Online
' - fully hosted with a browser based, drag-and-drop UI/UX to create and deploy integrations

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