By Parul Mishra, Neelakantan Sundaresan
Publication Date: 2026-10-01 00:00:00
Enterprise application estates include workloads with different security, sovereignty, infrastructure, and operational requirements. A single deployment architecture may not be appropriate for all of them.
IBM Bob’s self-hosted deployment brings its development and modernization capabilities into supported customer-managed environments, while giving organizations flexibility over where model inference takes place. They can run supported models on premises, including in air-gapped environments, or connect Bob to supported external model services through hybrid configurations. With a supported self-hosted model configuration, code, development context and build artifacts can remain within the customer-managed environment.
For example, a financial institution could use on-premises model inference for development work involving core banking applications while connecting Bob to an approved external model service for a less restricted workload. In both cases, developers work…
