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My ideas: Containers

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Command to Copy an Existing Image on Bluemix

A replacement command should be available for "bx ic cpi" to copy an existing image on Bluemix. As "ic" has been replaced by "cr" now, we don't have any similar command available in either the "bx cs" or "bx cr" commands. Copying an image is usefu...
almost 7 years ago in Containers 1 Not under consideration

IBM Cloud IaaS should support KOPS

60% clients will choose self-build Kubernetes on IaaS or on-premise infrastructure. https://github.com/kubernetes/kops AWS/GCP/Digitalocean officially support now.
about 6 years ago in Containers 0 Not under consideration

Request for Additional Worker Pool Flavor with Increased Disk Capacity

Additional worker pool flavors with 300GB disk capacity (or more) but lower CPU/memory specifications. The current b3c.16x64.300gb flavor provides adequate storage but over-provisioned resources. Proposed new flavors: b3c.16x32.300gb b3c.8x32.300g...
about 2 months ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Redesign and Deployment of Red Hat Openshift AI and IBM Watsonx workload on IBM Cloud Satellite based on CXL Disaggregated Memory by using orchestrated 5G/6G slicing for AI workloads on Distributed cloud and Cloud satellite

Redesign and Deployment of Red Hat Openshift AI and IBM Watsonx workloads on IBM Cloud Satellite based on CXL Disaggregated Memory by using orchestrated 5G/6G slicing for AI workloads on Distributed cloud and Cloud satellite Please Note: I re- wri...
4 months ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Not under consideration

NGINX Ingress Controller ONLY Case Insensitive Paths

Currently, the IBMCloud Kubernetes Ingress Controller does not support ONLY case insensitive paths. It supports case insensitivity with wildcard paths. This makes it impossible to define case-insensitive paths when there are two sub-paths are defi...
over 5 years ago in Containers 0 Not under consideration

Change Kubernetes worker node machine type in place

This is derived from a GitHub issue for the IBM Cloud terraform provider. The request there is to make it possible to change the machine type of the worker nodes of a Kubernetes cluster. It is not possible to change the machine type via terraform ...
over 5 years ago in Containers 8 Not under consideration

Enable "secure" forwarding of client IPs to Container cluster services

CS clusters do not forward client IPs by default as the ALB act as a non-trasparent proxy. So in order to forward the client ip in custom HTTP headers, such as x-forwarded-for , these instructions can be followed. https://console.bluemix.net/docs/...
about 6 years ago in Containers 0 Not under consideration

Kubectl behind proxy

Companies which use a proxy server would like to use kubectl tools at their enviroments to access and administrate IBM Cloud Containers Service.
over 6 years ago in Containers 0 Not under consideration

Building with a dockerfile in a location other than the build context directory

'docker build' cli allows one to specify an arbitrary file as the dockerfile for the build. This is done by using the '-f' option on the command line. For example: docker build -f test/test.dockerfile context/bigfiles. This enables an elaborate st...
over 8 years ago in Containers 1 Not under consideration

Make runtime and containers free monthly allowance consistent

Hi, Currently, the free monthly allowances are as follow: Runtime: 375 GB-hour Containers: 365 GB-hour I think they should be both the same (e.g. 375) to be less confusing. Also, is it just me or 365 GB-hour doesn't cover 512 MB for a whole mo...
over 8 years ago in Containers 1 Not under consideration