IBM Brings Bob to Self-Hosted and Air-Gapped Environments: Agentic Software Development Without Moving Your Code

IBM has made a self-hosted deployment option for IBM Bob generally available. Bob is IBM’s agentic software development platform. It covers the full lifecycle: understanding code, planning work, executing changes and validating results. The new option lets enterprises run Bob on premises, in private or sovereign clouds, and in air-gapped networks.

Is it deployable today? Yes. The self-hosted option is generally available to enterprise customers. You must source, license and host a supported model yourself. IBM has not published pricing and routes buyers to a demo request.

What IBM Shipped at GA

The self-hosted deployment includes:

• Bob running in customer-managed enterprise environments.
• Core Bob capabilities: the IDE experience, BobShell, parallel tool calling, the agent harness, skills and modes.
• Self-hosted, air-gapped and hybrid model configurations.
• Bring-your-own-license (BYOL) for eligible models on IBM’s supported…